New York, May 21: Google plans to start out promoting its cell phones with modular, replaceable components – the primary cellphone ever that the tech large is manufacturing – by subsequent yr, in accordance with a media report.

The Mission Ara workforce, concerned in creating the product, confirmed that the modular phones could be obtainable to shoppers subsequent 12 months, know-how web site The Verge reported on Friday.

The Google modular phones will work on a easy idea – as soon as a fundamental mannequin is purchased all of the bits will be pulled off and swapped as the buyer sees match.

As an example, if a consumer fancies a more highly effective digicam module he can purchase one by Google‘s dedicated retailer and change the present one with it.

The identical could be finished with different elements as properly together with reminiscence, battery, show panels, keyboards, sensors and scanners.

“It is a system that can enable extra space for modules,” The Verge reported after looking on the prototype of the modular cell at Google headquarters in California.

“They let me attempt saying ‘Okay Google, eject the digital camera module’ and it straight-up labored: a tiny latch contained in the cellphone physique moved once I set the telephone on the desk (face down) and the module launched,” the report stated quoting the web site’s govt editor Dieter Bohn.

“There’s nonetheless work to do right here – Google must ship, it must get module companions on board, it must make the entire thing a bit of thinner and nicer wanting,” he added.

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