THE MODULAR SMARTPHONE
http://festwiz.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-modular-smartphone.html
Google's project
arasmartphone might be closer than we anticipated. The recent silence surrounding Google's modular smartphone Project Ara has been broken at the Linaro Connect US 2014 conference. There, Project Ara team leader Paul Eremenko announced that users will be able to swap parts of the modular phone when it's powered on. What this means is that the components such as camera, network module e.t.c can be removed with the Phone switched on, save for the processor, screen and of course battery components Google is targeting a $50 entry price tag for the Project Ara smartphone. Pricing of the various modular blocks isn't known yet. Expect the first Project Ara modular smartphone to get its official announcement in January 2015. It will run a modified version of Android L, which will be also interesting to check out.