Project ARA is a code name for an initiative that aim to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. The platform will include a structural frame or endoskeleton that holds smartphone modules of the owner’s choice, such as a Display, Camera or an external battery. It would allow users to swap out malfunctioning modules or upgrade individual modules as innovations emerge, providing longer lifetime cycles for the handset, and potentially reducing electronic waste. Project Ara smartphone will begin pilot testing in Puerto Rich later 2015 with a target bill of materials cost of $ 50 for a basic grey phone.
The
smartphone is one of the most empowering and intimate objects in our lives. Yet
most of us have little say in how the device is mode, what it does, and how it
looks, and 5 billion of us don't have one. What if you could make thoughtful
choices about exactly what your phone does, and use it as a creative canvas to
tell your own story?
Designed
exclusively for 6 billion people.
We are
excited to announce the first ARA Developers Conference, to be held April
15-16, 2014. The Developer's Conference will be hold online, with a live web
stream and interactive Q&A capability. A listed number of participants will
be able to attend in person of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Project Ara will launch until 2016.
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