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Application of Ara Modular Smartphone Components for Wearable Electronics

27.04.2014

Google has published the first draft of the Project Ara Module Developers Kit (MDK) specifications. Specifications provide requirements for common components: displays, processors, batteries, wireless chipsets, and so on. The first modular smartphone should appear in early 2015.

Project Ara in the future may be related not only to smartphones. In particular, Toshiba's Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Shardul Kazi spoke at the Developers Conference about his vision of how the new concept could be implemented. Shardul Kazi believes that Ara's modular components can also be used to create various wearable electronics, such as smart watches.

The slide showed how one of the modules of the Ara smartphone is placed in a wearable device made in the form of a bracelet. The example module included a Cortex-M4F core chip, an accelerometer, and a Bluetooth LE adapter. As Kazi clarified, this is just a possible implementation of the concept. It is worth noting that Toshiba is one of Google's partners in the Ara project.

In any case, even the first smartphone created as part of the Ara project is unlikely to be a truly mass product. And it is too early to discuss the possibility of using some of its modules in other devices. In addition, the implementation of such an idea will require the support of many companies. Therefore, for now, we are talking only about another concept.

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