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Google's Project Ara reveals working modular smartphone prototype

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A new video uploaded to YouTube by design company Phonebloks reveals Google's latest prototype for its modular smartphone concept - and it works this time. 

Project Ara is Google's ambitious plan, conceptualised in October 2013, to build a modular smartphone with interchangeable units. The device so far has a metal endoskeleton with hololowed spaces and a universal bus where various phone hardware parts like the processor, battery, camera or display can be inserted. This way, the user can have a truly customizable phone, at a significantly lower cost. 

The newest prototype titled Spiral One, in the video below, is powered up, unlocked and even launches an app. A big step forward from Project Ara's last demo at Google's developer event I/O in June, when their then prototype froze a few seconds after booting and refused to do anything else. 

Google says its next prototype, Spiral 2, Will be further along the road thanks to custom chips from Toshiba, and they plan to reveal it at the next developer conference in Jan.  

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