Motorola supports Phonebloks and creates its modular smartphone Project Ara

In September, we wrote about the Phonebloks project - a modular smartphone that can be assembled from different units. Then, in the comments, many called it utopia. Today, about the Ara project - a new, open iron platform for creating modular smartphones, announced Motorola .



The platform will be fully open for assembly, in fact, Motorola will offer only the base (endoskeleton), and the modules — the processor, battery, screen, or keyboard — will be offered by third-party manufacturers.
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“We want to do the same thing with the hardware that the Android platform did with software - to create a vibrant development ecosystem, lower entry barriers, increase innovation and significantly reduce development time,” the company writes.

The company is currently working with Dave Hackens, the creator of Phonebloks to create an ecosystem, and they are planning to invite third-party manufacturers to develop individual units in a few months.

“Our goal is to create more meaningful, expressive, and open relationships between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the opportunity to decide what your phone is doing, how it looks, where and what it is made of, how much it costs and how long you will use it. ”