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Google to sell Motorola, but not all of them. In addition to most of the patents are still in hand , now officially confirmed that Google have modular mobile phone project Ara continues to control.

Announced as early as October last year, Motorola is working on a special collection for the Project Ara modular phone that can be freely combined . Motorola has said Ara mobile phone prototype in early December had been "very close" to completion.

It is understood that after the sale of Motorola's mobile phone business, a modular mobile phone project Ara will be integrated into Google's Android team, team of almost 100 people to move from Sunnyvale to mountain view.

Google got rid of Motorola mobility this burden, Ara projects are expected to benefit from Google's rich resources and strong support for accelerating, perhaps soon after this can be assembled like blocks, modular mobile phone will appear in people's vision.

谷歌：摩托罗拉能卖，模块化手机要留下 - 摩托罗拉,谷歌 - IT资讯
谷歌：摩托罗拉能卖，模块化手机要留下

谷歌把摩托罗拉卖了，但不是全部。除了大部分专利仍留在手中，目前经过官方证实模块化手机项目Ara也继续由谷歌掌控。

早在去年十月摩托罗拉就宣布正在研发一款名为Project Ara的可自由组合的模块化手机。12月初摩托罗拉曾表示Ara手机的原型机已经“很接近”完成。

据了解，出售摩托罗拉手机业务后，模块化手机项目Ara将被整合到谷歌安卓团队中，近一百人的团队要从桑尼维尔搬至山景城。

由于谷歌甩掉了摩托罗拉移动这个包袱，Ara项目有望受益于谷歌的丰富资源和大力支持而加速推进，也许不久之后这款可以像积木一样组装的模块化手机就会出现在人们的视野中。