On Thursday, I opined about the opening keynote of Google I/O 2015. I said it was awfully boring and I meant it. Friday was totally different. Google’s advanced technology and platforms team (ATAP) just finished up its keynote during day two of Google I/O and… wow. The group discussed several new projects, including Project Soli, Project Jacques, Project Abacus, Project Vault and...
Project Ara is still a work in progress, but Google’s ATAP division showed the public its modular phone successfully booting up and working for the the first time ever. The company even took a photo live onstage. Though the demo only lasted a few minutes, that’s all it took to satisfy our desires for an update on the platform. Previous attempts to get Project Ara working in front of a...
Google hosted its first Project Ara developers conference last week, where it finally revealed more detailed information on its modular smartphone project. Ara is currently in the hands of the firm's Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) team, who have been tasked with turning an idea into a real, physical product that Google hopes to sell to the entire world at various price points...
Google is hosting a developer conference this week focused on its Project Ara modular smartphone. We’ve covered a few of the news stories, like when the phone is expected to hit the market, but then we realized that, perhaps, some people aren’t familiar with what exactly Project Ara is. But you should be familiar with it, because Project Ara could potentially be one of the biggest...