Video: How Moto Maker is paving the way for fully modular smartphones

The idea of owning a modular phone with affordable, replaceable parts was nothing more than a pipe dream just months ago, but Motorola’s Project Ara might make that dream come true in the not-too-distant future. In an interview with YouTube personality Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside said he doesn’t know if Motorola will be able to have a product on the market in the next 12 months, but the prototype is already “pretty close” to what Dave Hakkens imagined in his Phonebloks concept video. Although much of the Project Ara conversation was speculative and hypothetical, Woodside did make a few important points regarding the feasibility of the concept. “The idea is that you have a skeleton that holds

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