Google's Project ARA tablet spotted on GFXBench

We probably won't see the first Ara smartphone until later this year, as the Ara team indicated recently via Twitter that the first handset would debut in 2016, and if there is to be any news on the matter, it's almost certain that will be at the Google I/O dev gathering in late May. 

As we await an inaugural Project Ara smartphone, the new GFXBench revelation points to a tablet with a 13.8-inch FHD display, 3GB of RAM and OpenGL ES 3.1 support.



As you can see from the specs sheet above, the processor aspect is taken care of by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC, which caused some controversy last year thanks to reported overheating issues. In the future with something like Project Ara, a problematic processor could be as easy to switch as a screen protector, and should modular smartphones ever become a Thing, the smartphone game as we know it would be completely turned on its head. 


Identified as Google Project Ara (A8A01), the slab runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There's no telling whether such a device is ever to be released, since benchmarks only offer information on specs. We'll surely know more by the time I/O comes around.

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