Two years ago this site interviewed New Deal Design’s Gadi Amit about Google’s Project Ara.
Project Ara is an experiment in creating a modular phone where users can customise their devices by adding or removing components.
PC World now reports the mooted soft launch for the Project Ara phone in Puerto Rico has been cancelled.
While Google aren’t saying the project has been shut down, the sporadic and cryptic messages around Ara don’t bode well given the way the company loses interest in and then abandons products.
If it is being abandoned, it will be interesting to see where the intellectual property from the project ends up.