Inside Google’s plan to help you build the smartphone of your dreams

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8sI7Y7ABWaT8jtpjvDvSCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/motorola-project-ara.png (http://news.yahoo.com/inside-google-plan-help-build-smartphone-dreams-041041840.html)We’ve written at length about Google’s modular smartphone Project Ara in the past, but substantial updates have been few and far between. With just a week left until-the first developers conference for the device, MIT Technology Review has spoken with Paul Eremenko, the project lead, and-Ara Knaian (after whom the project was named), who give us-a little more context to the modular device and attempting to explain how it fits into a very crowded, competitive market. “We-believe that the smartphone hardware ecosystem should be, and can be, a lot more like the Android app ecosystem: with a low barrier to entry, lots and lots of developers, and faster, richer innovation,”-says Eremenko. Google’s role would begin and end with the “endoskeleton”



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