Project Ara: "Immortal" smartphone.......??

Project Ara is the most loved, but "adopted"(from Motorola Mobility), child of Google. It is an initiative by Motorola Mobility and later by Google's Android team that aims to develop a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. Project Ara has a goal to

Do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software.

To make it really simple to understand take it as a LEGO block game. You are free to use different parts of a mobile phone like the camera, RAM, ROM, processor, GPU, battery, etc. in any way and in any configuration and specification you want according to your need and greed. This in turn makes your phone Immortal, as whatever part of your phone dies out can be replaced with a new one.

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Now tell me if you are feeling that the processor of your current mobile phone is not powerful enough to play certain games or lags while multi-tasking what can you do? In the current market scenario you have no other option than to get a completely new mobile phone and chuck the old one, which means spending extra bucks when you just need a new processor. This is where Project Ara kicks in. It gives you the freedom to replace the old slow processor(on any other part of the device) with a new one. This in turn saves your hard earned money and makes you feel like Captain Planet as you are also contributing in cutting down on e-waste as well. Ain't that cool?

And here is the even cooler thing, you don't have to just read about Project Ara but you can also be a contributor in its making. Yeah you read it right!

Google is inviting people across the globe to become Ara Scouts. Over the next 6 - 12 months, we'll be doing research to shape the direction of Project Ara. You can help by collaborating with us on special missions.

So you can register yourself over here

Now Google has planned to reach the 6 billion people of which 1 billion are the smartphone users and the rest are basic feature phone users. It has aimed to bring in the first Ara kit at around a price tag of 50 USD.

Now let's see how this Project Ara comes out to be, fingers crossed.