The so-called "last phone you'll ever need to buy" won't be available for you to buy anytime soon. Google says that the super exciting Project Ara modular smartphone will launch in... Puerto Rico?
Yep, the United States island territory will be the first place you can get the crazy smartphone when Google launches a market pilot later in 2015. We don't know how much it'll cost or precisely when quite yet, but Google's believes it'll feature 4G LTE connectivity and at least a day's worth of battery life by the time it gets there.
Why Puerto Rico? Take a peek at Google's slide above, but in case you can't read the small text, Google says that Puerto Rico has a very diverse population of smartphone users, lots of carriers, is a "gateway to the world" as far as the internet is concerned since it's a junction point for underwater cables, and also benefits from having same-day shipping anywhere on the island. Oh, and it's got some designated free trade zones that Google is eyeing carefully.
That said, this is just the market pilot: a full launch of the Ara device could be farther off, or perhaps not even happen at all. "We don't know the answer to that question," said Google ATAP director Regina Dugan, when asked how long it might be between the market pilot and a full global launch.
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from Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/dont-expect-googles-modular-ara-smartphone-anytime-soon-1679445855
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