Friday, May 23, 2014

Google Project Macaw, processors and Toshiba prices starting at $ 50 – mobileblog.it (Blog)

Google Project Macaw is the modular design of smartphone was born inside the Motorola Advanced Technology Group, and then with the sale of the company to Lenovo, carried out by the same group but under the banner of Google . We talked about it on several occasions, the last of which was the Developer Conference held last month in Mountain View.

Read: Google Ara Project, taking place at the Mountain View Ara Developers Conference

The idea is to produce smartphones consist of a base and of several modules that can be easily replaced and customized by users to add or remove functionality to the device according to the needs. Coming now some news on various aspects of the project, from the future producer of processors for devices Ara.

According to the Nikkei Asian Review, it will not be one of the known names of the industry mobile technology as Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek, but Toshiba . It seems that the Japanese company is working with Google on the project since last October. For phones Ara, Toshiba is expected to produce three types of processors to use in both the base and in the various modules.

The first examples of the new chips will be ready in autumn and the production of mass will begin in early 2015. Toshiba will – at least initially – the supplier “favorite”, then take to a year after the presentation on the role of sole provider. Of course this is preliminary information and then, for now, are difficult to interpret.

On the front of the Prices , however, come confirmations on the economy of the devices Ara Project. Google smartphones expected to be sold at a starting price of $ 50 , refer to the device without a contract. However, to date we do not know yet if included in the price of the base there will also be some of the modules (each phone may contain from 5 to 10 ) or if it will all be purchased separately.

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