Motorola’s Project Ara: The modular phone you can own forever

Motorola’s Project Ara: The modular phone you can own forever:
As the strange, exciting Phonebloks social media campaign reaches its potentially explosive conclusion, one major smartphone company announced its intentions to jump on board the modular smartphone bandwagon as well. Motorola introduced Project Ara in a blog post on Monday, "a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones." Android has been the leader in open source smartphone software for years, and Motorola wants to bring the same freedom to hardware developers. Motorola's dedication to customization was made apparent when the Moto Maker program went live earlier in the year for the flagship Moto X, allowing users thousands of possible color combinations for their new handsets.

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