Google postpones first release of modular smartphone Project Ara

Google has delayed the release of its first Project Ara models. The modular smartphone was due to hit the market in Puerto Rico this year, but will now make its first appearance in the United States in 2016.

The postponement is necessary, because Project Ara needs ‘many iterations’, so writes the lead of the project on Twitter. Ara is Google’s system for a modular smartphone, where users can choose their own components.

The intention was that Ara would be released for the first time in Puerto Rico this year, but that plan has been scrapped. Instead, Ara will first be released in the United States in 2016, but Google will announce exactly where and when at a later date.

The release of Project Ara is tricky, as it is the first modular smartphone system of its kind. As a result, developers run into many problems. Ara was originally an idea of ​​Motorola, but Google kept it to itself when it sold Motorola to Lenovo last year. It is now in the Advanced Technologies division of Android.