Google’s modular Ara phone delayed

[Priyanka]

Google has delayed its plans to trial its modular smartphone concept, codenamed Project Ara. The first Project Ara hardware was due to be trialled in Puerto Rico this year, but has been pushed back to at least 2016. The trial will take place in a new location in the US, the Project Ara team said via a series of tweets. The team blamed "lots of iterations" in the design, which was first shown off in 2013, for the delay.

[sonia sharma]

Google had planned to offer around 20 to 30 different modules for the Puerto Rico trial.