Project Ara Looks Less Like Vaporware, Launches Spiral 2 Hardware

[scolaner]

Project Ara's second dev conference is underway, and the latest prototype, Spiral 2, shows progress.

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[Mike Friesen]

I am very excited to see how this turns out.

In the early dev stages, I was hoping that it would be made real; Google was behind it, but the Google glass thing has kinda disappeared, and I figured this would too. But a roadmap with a release this year makes me think differently. Kudos, Google.

 

[bit_user]

I'm worried we're going to get a bunch of proprietary hardware modules that can only be used by proprietary apps. Someone please give me a reason to think otherwise.

Also, what's the max bandwidth supported by UniPro or whatever bus they're using? I read about a GPU module, but it seems to me that the communication speed is probably much slower than that of GPUs integrated with the CPU. Same goes for RAM modules.

 

[Daniel Coca]

Scalable bandwidth of 23.2Gbps in each direction

 

[Merry_Blind]

I love this concept. Can't wait to get my hands on those phones. Hopefully they'll deliver. I trust in Google.

 

[bustapr]

its a smart move to do this in PR. Since they are using two local carriers (claro is latin american, but its local in US) they have a contained environment for research. There will be less confusion, less people buying it from around the US trying to activate it on a big carrier. in short, less headaches and scams.

Cant wait to see the hippie trucks in the area when they arrive xD

 

[plasmastorm]

This is the whole reason I'm still holding onto my HTC One X.
Once this is released or shelved I'll get a new phone

 

[back_by_demand]

Back of the phone looks a bit like WP8 tiles, I can see the pictures on the parts aping to look like live tiles apps too.

 

[RunLuke]

I have been skeptical since the first concepts and still am. There's a myriad if issues from technical ones to supply chain ones to consumer ones that I won't list and people here are probably already aware of.

However I hope I'm proved wrong.