Google wants to commercialize in 2017

Google wants to commercialize in 2017 its smartphone Ara kit

05/23/2016

The US Internet giant Google (Alphabet Group) plans to launch next year on the consumer market a smartphone kit, which was announced early 2015 under the code name "Project Ara." "Next year will be Ara available to consumers, "said group Friday May 20, the last day of its annual conference for developers. They will have access even in the fall to a specific issue in order to begin creating applications.
Ara is "a modular phone," with a basic structure on which the user can assemble with electromagnets, like a building game, modules of different colors and features: camera, sensors, speaker. ..
"The goal is to Ara for mobile devices that have applications for software," the internet group. When the first prototype was unveiled in early March 2015, at the World mobile congress in Barcelona, ​​Google had hoped to create an industry around this new model, which would offer according to him easier access to the internet to the inhabitants of the country emerging.

The sale price is not yet known, but the group had raised at the time a production cost starting at $ 50 for an entry-level model. He also promised a size test before the end of 2015 in Puerto Rico, but it had never materialized.

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