In a continuation of the shake-up after Alphabet become the parent company of Google, the Twitter account for Project Ara has piped up, sayings its market pilot would be “re-routed” after it was originally planned to get tested in Puerto Rico. We’re not entirely sure why the pilot needed to be moved at all, but I’m sure we’ll find out in due time, particularly as the tweets included phrases like “this is not goodbye”.
Market pilot re-route. Stay tuned for more details. #ProjectAra #recalculating
— Project Ara (@ProjectAra) August 13, 2015
More updates coming your way next week. Stay with us. #ProjectAra
— Project Ara (@ProjectAra) August 13, 2015
Project Ara was left with Google after Motorola was sold to Lenovo – in case you don’t know what Project Ara is, it is the development of a fully modular smartphone where any part of the hardware can be swapped out or upgraded. Sounds perfect in theory, and we’ve been eagerly waiting to see if the device cuts it in the real world. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what Project Ara has to say about its future plans in the coming weeks.
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Source: Twitter (1), (2) via engadget
