Google’s Project Ara delayed to 2016 as it failed drop test

According to the latest set of tweets, Project Ara’s team said that they cannot use “electropermanent magnets,” anymore to keep the various modules of the Project Ara smartphone together. This means Google will have to re-think a lot of steps on the Project.

Project Ara has been one of the most talked about Google Projects. The delay announcement comes after Google gave the media and developers a first official demonstration of a Project Ara smartphone at this year’s Google I/O in May 2015.

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Google Engineer Rafa Camargo in his demoset up a whole phone from scratch which was also running ‘the latest build of Android’. As you can see in the video, he added the camera module after the smartphone had been set up and then also took a picture from the camera to show that it was working just fine.

With Project Ara, this is the real potential: The ability to create smartphones with customisable hardware. Once it starts rolling out,  Project Ara will definitely push the expectations of what a regular smartphone could mean in the future.

On Twitter, Google’s Project Ara explained that it needs “Lots of iterations… more than we thought” and hence the delay. Guess we will have to wait till 2016 to see a Project Ara device.