On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo. Thus concluded the company’s brief, unprofitable foray into ...

As Google gets ready to ship the Lego-like Project Ara smartphone later this year, the company wants to ensure relevant hardware is available to coincide with the device’s release. This week, Google ...

Google is sending out hardware for Project Ara, which will let you build a personalised phone from a selection of bolt-together elements. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the ...

Building a smartphone with modular components that could be quickly swapped out for different parts sounds like a really cool idea, but Google is ready to admit no one actually wants one. The Alphabet ...

LG is launching a new project in its smartphone division, the “Explorer Project.” On September 14, we’ll see the reveal of the first smartphone from those efforts, presumably the leaked “LG Wing.” In ...

The mikroPhone is a mobile phone that you can build yourself… at least theoretically. It’s made using a combination of off-the-shelf components and custom designed parts, but you can find a complete ...

Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone project is showing signs of life after a long lull, though it’s not certain when the customizable smartphones will be available. The Project Ara Web site sports ...

Two names you may never heard of; BungBungame and Indiegogo, are teaming up to try and make “Project S” a reality – building a smartphone with high-end specs for only $299. We are talking 2014 ...

Modular smartphone lets users customize features. Google displayed prototypes of their Spiral 2 modular phones at a developers conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2014. — -- Google ...

Is constant smartphone surveillance still terrifying if it's for science? Three Stanford University professors announced in Nature Wednesday that they had undertaken an intensive new study of the way ...

Photos of Samsung's supposed "Project Valley" dual-screen smartphone prototype have leaked and...yow. Not exactly the kind of device you'd imagine flying off store shelves. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

Imperial College London researchers have announced they are teaming up the Vodafone Foundation on the "Corona-AI" project that will use the DreamLab app to take advantage of smartphone computing power ...