Swap Project Ara’s Modules Without Powering Down

Earlier, we have already talked about Project Ara, but we came to know now that the battery of this device will be hot swappable. It means, users are allowed to swap almost dead battery for a complete one without turning the device off or losing their running things.

However, there is one more new thing that is surfacing on the web about Project Ara, and that is the fact that almost all the modules, which are used in a Project Ara device are hot swappable.

According to the director of Project Ara Paul Eremenko, “Project Ara has recently noted that users of it will be able to swap the phone modules around without losing what they are working with only two exceptions.”

We all know that it is not possible to hot swappable the monitor and CPU in the middle of a call or text message. The hot swappable modules’ idea is that you would change modules as like the camera to better suit what you are doing right then.

Moreover, Google has provided more information on Project Ara as this all new modular mobile phone concept is scheduled for early 2015, and it will be sold through a new online store and Google Play once it launched in the market.

According to the Ara developer blog “Phoneblocks”, the Project Ara devices are expected to run a modified version of its upcoming Android L operating system that has been developed by the company in conjunction with developers of the Linaro Linux-based software.

For an example – you can swap a wide-angle camera while taking a picture of people or use a camera with more resolution for landscape shots. Another detail that we came to know is that Google is going to have an online store to sell its different modules or Project Ara.

Initially, Google started working on this project with its former subsidiary Motorola Mobility on Project Ara, but gradually, there are several other partners have also joined like Foxconn, chipmaker Rockchip and hardware companies Toshiba and Quanta. However, the company has planned a second conference for December month as the company will reveal more information on this project.

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Project Ara – Google Looking to Modernize Smart-phone Industry

Whenever I am hearing the name of project Ara, I get Goosebumps because it is one of the most interesting projects in the mobile industry. The all new and exclusive Project Ara is the codename for a new program by Google, which mainly aims to develop a free, open hardware platform for developing highly advanced modular smart-phones.

However, this project is all set to develop a smart-phone, which basically enables consumers to develop their own custom smart-phones that are alike what we saw in the PC industry with desktop towers.

Moreover, Project Ara also allows you to swap modules (batteries, radios, cameras, screens and more) across the exoskeletons. They are calling it an ecosystem as third parties are meant to be able to supply their own modules for an open spec.

A good overview in Wired discusses the possibilities this open-up like night vision, biometrics, 3D imaging) but most of the people are looking forward in the possibilities for surveillance-resistant open source hardware and hot-swapping modules, which lock phones. Additionally, people also like the idea of being able to click-out a broken screen and click in a fresh one.

The designers guessed for a modular phone to function that each module will need to have a great and direct access to a central piece of electronics without bothering about any neighboring modules imposing on its space or function. Amit says, “We want an arbitrator–some element that is objective and is neutral, that nobody can manipulate, that has a very clear spec that everyone can adhere to.” The endoskeleton is that authority.

The Massachusetts firm created with NK Labs is responsible for a complete lot of Ara’s electrical and mechanical engineering as it is the bus to which all modules attach. Each and every module has its own plot on the endo making it a lot simpler so that every module makers do not have to bother about building on top of other modules.

Furthermore, the project era is also hoping to valve into a handful of next-gen technologies in order to make it work wonderfully. For attaching modules, a prototype uses electro permanent magnets, and when it comes to emerging standard, it called as UniPro for allowing people to talk to the endo. Till today, the idea of parceling was very important to the vision.

The only way to develop an ecosystem in which anyone could bring a module to market was developing such design where modules are both electronically and physically independent from their neighbors.

Amit says, “We had to create a system that allows everyone to understand the boundaries of where they can operate or not”. “That was somewhat restrictive. But the notion was that this minimal restriction would allow this economy of third parties to thrive.”

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