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Google’s Project ARA: Build Your Own Phone by 2015
During the
first Project Ara developer conference on Tuesday, Ara leader Paul Eremenko said that
Google's modular Gray Phone, aka Project Ara, will be made available in January
2015 and cost around $50 to build. The phone will be a boring gray because the company
wants customers to fully customize
the device.
wants customers to fully customize
the device.
I think
that this will be a good phone because you can build it yourself, so people
would want to buy it. So people can customize your own phone.
Google works on so many projects,
it can be hard to keep track of them all. They've put computers on our faces,
sent internet balloons into the atmosphere,
and created contact lenses that measure glucose
through our tears. Project Ara is another example of trying to take
an ambitious idea and make it possible—all while changing the way we think
about smartphones in the process. Developing team of Google’s
highly-customizable modular smartphone, Project Ara has just announced that
they prepared the a custom-made processor for the device. For those who are
unfamiliar with Project Ara, it’s Google’s project which aims to develop a
modular smartphone that will allow users to customize it and replace its
components, just like its the case with PC or Phonebloks.
Chinese chip manufacturer, Rockchip will create the
new SoC for Project Ara, that chipset will replace the Texas Instruments OMAP
4660 processors used in earlier prototypes of Project Ara. As the customizable
architecture of Ara allows, the new processor will come in the form of native,
general-purpose UniPro interface and it is specifically designed to work as an
independent module, with no need for a bridge chip.
“We view this Rockchip processor as a trailblazer
for our vision of a modular architecture where the processor is a node on a
network with a single, universal interface – free from also serving as the
network hub for all of the mobile device’s peripherals,” head of Project Ara at
Google ATAP, Paul Eremenko, said.
Besides
the announcement of the new component for Project Ara, Eremenko revealed that
those who won units at the Google I/O will have to wait a bit to get their
devices. The reason for that is planting the boards with an incorrect material,
which caused a mess in the schedule.
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