We discuss the overhyping of patents, AT&T's overhyping of its 5G network and content providers not buying Apple's single-stream hype on the show!
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Innovation doesn't just have to serve what may be the most popular feature of a product that people use every day. In fact, it should go beyond popularity.
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What if a "world-class" team of Project Ara and Amazon Echo architects will soon join hands for a truly modular Facebook smartphone or smart speaker?
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We have walked 500 miles and we would walk 500 more to be the men that walked a thousand miles to podcast off the floor of apartment rental. That’s all out of necessity for us to not only cover days and days of devices launched before and at the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2016, but in order for us to podcast. And this late audio file is the result of our fruits.Juan Carlos Bagnell and Jaime Rivera team up to talk about the pop and burn of the Galaxy Note 7, Google dropping Project Ara, the Star VR from Acer, Huawei’s Nova before it, Sony’s now-usual ...
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The four-year-old modular smartphone project that began with Motorola’s skunkworks has ended under Google’s control, according to sources to the Reuters news agency. Google may elect to license the technology to manufacturers, but that’s only a possibility at this point.The word inside Mountain View? Consolidation. It has been apparent that Google has been exerting more control over areas it has had demonstrated success or publicity on —
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Rick Osterloh came to Google as its head of hardware and he came at a very pivotal time. We’re finally seeing and hearing good news from Google’s Advanced Technologies and Products unit about the modular smartphone product that has raised expectations and broken promises for over a year now.One of Project Ara’s chiefs said that developer kits for the the smartphone and modules will ship later ...
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Modular phones are becoming a thing. Or so LG hopes. One of the most popular modular phones of later has been Project Ara, Google’s modular device that will have a Lego-like structure of swapping out components that are sold out of lunch wagons. I’m not even making this up. This is an interesting concept since it adds two things to your phone which cannot normally be added – longevity and ease of repair. LG’s modular design adds a new dimension to the equation – expandability. But the question is, are those things that the modern smartphone needs? Or is the ...
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Did we ever give up on a truly modular smartphone? Did Google leave Project Ara to simmer and burn out? Do we care anymore?Project Ara has been quiet in 2016. It was tweeting sweet nothings to us, promising everything will be alright soon. It left things off with a retweet of the
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While there have been numerous so-called modular smartphones announced in the past six to nine months, the vast majority of which sought crowdfunding for R&D or production, the initiative that started this trend remains our most anticipated one. By a landslide.Now, obviously, Google has all the money needed to turn
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You’ll be excused if you missed the original announcement of the PuzzlePhone concept in December 2014, as back then, everybody still hoped Google’s ambitious Project Ara would materialize by the end of this year.That’s unfortunately no longer the plan, which is why contenders like
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After months and months of remaining low key, Google ATAP’s Project Ara modular smartphone effort popped back on our radar a little earlier this month, as we got word that plans for the initial public trial in Puerto Rico weren’t going to happen as planned. While that was bad news, the team behind Ara quickly gave us new cause to be hopeful, talking about
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The modular Project Ara effort intends to do smartphones a whole lot differently than anyone else out there, allowing users to configure bespoke hardware constructed from the individual components of their choice: from camera, to battery, to even the phone’s display, users would enjoy an unprecedented level of selection in giving a handset the features they wanted. All these individual Ara components were to be held in place via an interesting magnet-based system, holding them firmly secure. But would that really be ...
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Last week we got a long overdue update on Google ATAP’s progress with Project Ara, first learning about changes to the planned commercial pilot program. This week new details started arriving, like how we’d be waiting until at least next year to see that program get underway, and how Ara was considering new test markets across the US. We started to get a better picture for what was happening, but still ...
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Google’s Project Ara is one of the most promising efforts to reimagine the way smartphones are constructed, breaking the mold of the pre-configured handset we’re used to and taking a positively modular approach, allowing users to build the phone of their dreams by combining any number of individual phone components: camera, battery, screen, and more. Ara was supposed to make its public debut in the form of a trial program in Puerto Rico this year, but last week we learned that things had ...
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Hey! It’s Project Ara! We still remember that ambitious group of people who wanted to build a modular smartphone for the masses, right? Well, they’ve been a bit socially silent since Google I/O 2015. Furthermore, their schedule’s been all out of wack: Ara was supposed to have made its way to Puerto ...
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