The latest example of how a small startup can build disruptive hardware to challenge a goliath comes courtesy of the team behind Nexpaq, a modular smartphone case. The idea behind Nexpaq is to create ...

Foldable devices 2026 and modular tech trend forecast reshaping future smartphones, blending flexible designs, upgradability, and mass-market adoption.

Remember that technologically utopian future with modular, upgradeable smartphones that I envisioned back in August? It turns out that Motorola has had the same idea. Called Project Ara, Motorola's ...

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 ...

Apple has filed a new patent that outlines a future device where a phone can transform into a full-fledged camera system by ...

Trends driven in part by social media towards retro cameras have made vintage-inspired cameras harder to find – but an ...

Google's ambitious plan to bring modular smartphones to market, Project Ara, has been suspended. While there's still a chance that Google will breathe new life into Ara by licensing it to third ...

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 ...

In an odd quirk of fate, a month after writing about upgradeable smartphones, an innovative fellow called Dave Hakkens has launched new modular smartphone concept called Phonebloks. The idea is that, ...

I love the Fairphone’s ethos. It’s an Android-powered, modular smartphone that you can repair yourself. The company, same name as its product, launched its fifth-generation flagship, the Fairphone 5, ...

The FINANCIAL — LG Electronics (LG) on February 21 unveiled its highly anticipated LG G5 smartphone, a brand new design with not only a sleek, metal uni-body featuring a Slide-out Battery and a ...

The concept behind Project Ara is pretty simple: give consumers the ability to swap out parts of their phone. This allows for a greater level of personal customization, and may also reduce e-waste.