Google Advance Technology and Projects Team are planning to produce the new technological invention, a modular smartphone with plans to sell it in the market early 2015. The price will start at $50 and for that price you will get the skeleton of the phone with built-in WiFi. Cellular connectivity, camera or even touchscreen display, will be sold separately in modules.
Although the idea is still pretty ambitious, Google is hoping to start selling the modular smartphone in less than two years.
Nowadays if you want to buy a smartphone, you have to choose a device that is designed and built by large companies. If you need longer battery life, a better camera or higher resolution display, then you will have to find one phone that meets your expectations. Google’s modular smartphone will allow you to decide and choose individual models that meet your needs at once. If you don’t like to take photos with your smartphone, then you can avoid the camera modular and use the space for an additional battery or something else.
Google is holding its first Project Ara developer conference in April, where the company plans to launch a developer kit that will allow anyone to design modules for the phone.
Imagine a phone that has a 3D video recording camera module for the demanding technological people or a long life battery for the ones they are used to have long conversations.
Google plans to produce 3 different endoskeletons, a small, medium and large size. A medium version would have room for 10 modules, each measuring around 4mm thick. That’d result in a smartphone that measures 9.7mm thick, or just a bit thicker than an HTC One.
Google makes it easier to get a little excited about the idea of a phone that is at least a customizable as a desktop tower PC or easy to assemble as your IKEA bed.