Motorola pushes open source hardware platform plan Project Ara

For a few months, there is a rumor that Motorola will launch a customized smartphone. Customers can determine hardware configuration, such as how much battery? What processor? How many pixels do you want? Everything is decided. The rumors flow out, everyone is looking forward, but the ultimately seen is only a color, engraving on the back cover, or adding a personalized greeting in the boot screen, this and the revolutionary intelligence in your heart The mobile phone is far away. At that time, everyone felt that Google opened a big joke. Now the rumors are finally true, Motorola launches a free open source hardware program called Project Ara, and users can spell smartphones like music, users can choose any parts for their smartphones. The phone contains a major framework and several modules, which is hardware. This module can be anything hopped by hardware developers. If you like a smartphone capable of measuring atmospheric pressure and air humidity, if someone is designed and made a pass Sense module, you can add it to the frame, you can also add CPU, memory, camera, radio, etc. In addition, Motorola will release a development kit "Module Developer Kit" in the coming months. The phone is not Motorola's creative, for some time, Dutch Designer Dave Hakkens Designed Modular Concept Mobile PhoneBloks flows online, he believes that a smartphone should include a universal bottom plate and some modules, modules can put any you want. Hardware, just like Lego blocks, you can match your own mobile phone, when everyone feels not feasible, because of various issues such as communications, the product can only be conceptual and unable to become a reality. However, Motorola did not not be the same as everyone. I only felt that this product was just a designer's unrealistic fantasy, but about Hakkens, began to discuss the things of PhoneBloks, now we can see Project Ara, is also a smart phone for Hakkens Realization of concept. Motorola as the first company that proposed this plan, intended to develop a certain standard to ensure that all modular hardware on all ARA smartphones can be met. But don't be too late, ARA is still an experiment now, now you can assemble one at home or in school, but you can't use the business, Mit Media Lad has done similar projects. If Motorola can create a viable business project outside ARA, it marks the beginning of Diy Maker. In addition, Motorola mobile phone assembly involves a problem, hardware and operating system compatible, and is compatible with a series of hardware and software such as CPU, GPU. And because each part is different, the driver has to be installed separately, and the Android ROM is currently integrated with the drivers of each component, so that the brush is simple, but according to MOTO practices, you have to reload after the Windows reloading the system. The drive is the same, it may bring a lot of problems.