{"id":4755,"date":"2015-08-19T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2015-08-19T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:14:21","slug":"googles-project-ara-modular-smartphone-delayed-until-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/googles-project-ara-modular-smartphone-delayed-until-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Project Ara modular smartphone delayed until 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Project Ara modular smartphone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-33970172\">has been delayed until 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was set to go on trial in Puerto Rico later this year, but the test has been delayed until next year due to \u201d\u02dclots of iterations\u2019 and will now take place across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Project Ara is a \u201d\u02dcbuild your own\u2019 smartphone that allows users to construct their own device using components built by various manufacturers. Users would be able to choose their own screen, CPU, camera and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Various common smartphone issues, like cracked screens and dead batteries, could be swapped without costly repairs, while users could add various new features and components without having to upgrade their entire phone.<\/p>\n<p>An Ara starter kit has been priced at $50, which would allow Google to expand into developing markets too. Google\u2019s ambition is to create an \u201d\u02dcapp store for hardware\u2019, with different manufacturers able to sell components that would work in one phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Project Ara modular smartphone has been delayed until 2016. The project was set to go on trial in Puerto Rico later this year, but the test has been delayed until next year due to \u201d\u02dclots of iterations\u2019 and will now take place across the US. Project Ara is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}