Google mercifully axes Project Ara, the company’s ambitious modular smartphone initiative

[Yoni Heisler]

Project Ara, Google's ambitious initiative to develop a modular smartphone, has officially -- and perhaps predictably -- been suspended. According to Reuters, Google no longer plans to release a modular smartphone itself but remains open to working with hardware partners in order to bring the technology to market.

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