Project Ara Working Prototype Showcased

By Staff on November 30, 2014

Earlier in November, during Engadget Expand 2014 Paul Eremenko, head of Project Ara, shown the so called spiral 1 a fully working prototype of Project Ara. It runs Android KitKat and applications,

The prototype worked perfectly (finally) throughout the show, also when modules were hot-swapped; taken out and being put back in or replaced while the device still running.

See the nice coverage on Egnadget >> Taking apart Google’s modular smartphone.

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