GOOGLE Project ARA

What is Project ARA?

Project ARA can help you build your personal smartphone deciding on all of the components yourself. This device can be the last smartphone you would ever want. just switch out the processor and mobile radios when more recent ones come, and you would be on top of things.

Advantages

For General Public:-

• The Ara frame contains all the functions of a latest generation smartphone with six flexible slots for easy swapping.
• Ara modules fit neatly into the frame, allowing users to upgrade, innovate and style.
• Slide any Ara module into any slot and it just works. Powering this simplicity is Greybus, a new bit of software deep in the Android stack. Greybus supports instant connections, power efficiency and data-transfer rates of up to 11.9 Gbps.
• The Ara frame is built with durable connectors to keep modules secured . Ara modules are designed around standards, allowing them to work with new generations of frames and new form factors.

For Manufactures:- 

• The Ara frame contains the CPU, GPU, antennas, sensors, battery and display, freeing up more room for hardware in each module. Google is looking forward to module makers to create technology never seen before on smartphones.
• The Ara baseplate provides an instantaneous connection to the Ara frame and its core technologies.That means less time fiddling and more time thinking and building.

Latest updates:

Developer edition will be shipped later this year.