“Life is like a box of LEGOs.” You can almost hear that catchphrase echoing across the decades as the preamble to Motorola’s surprise Project Ara: a smartphone you cobble together from pieces like a ...

Phones have gotten a lot better over the past decade, with brands making important refinements that really push a design to its limits. And while refinement builds a better product, some would call it ...

About a decade ago, many of us tech geeks were very excited for a new project that Google was working on, with Motorola (before Google sold Motorola off to Lenovo, and spun off Motorola Solutions).

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 ...