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 ...

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 ...

The HMD Fusion is a mid-range smartphone with a few unusual features. One is that, like several other recent HMD smartphones, the Fusion is designed to be easily repairable. But another is that while ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 keyboard is magnetically attached to the phone’s body, and the company has announced a re-mappable T9 keyboard and an iPod-style touch wheel, which it currently calls the Sundial.

I’ve been using one of the bravest phones of the year. It’s the HMD Fusion, and it has found a way to stand out in the current, congested world of smartphones, allowing HMD to break free of its Nokia ...

Modular smartphone lets users customize features. Google displayed prototypes of their Spiral 2 modular phones at a developers conference in Mountain View, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2014. — -- Google ...