Gallery: A Day With Project Ara, Google's Crazy Modular Phone

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    Paul Eremenko shows how a module can be taken on and off a Project Ara prototype at the Google campus in Mountain View, California.
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    Paul Eremenko displays early Spiral 0 industrial design models of Project Ara handsets, in medium and mini sizes.
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    A first look at the Project Ara Spiral 1 prototype booting up. Here we see an Android lockscreen.
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    The all-applications view of Android, running on a Project Ara Spiral 1 handset.
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    Paul Eremenko holds a Project Ara endoskeleton, the frame on which all of it modules connect.
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    Project Ara prototypes in mini and medium sizes. Note the design on the right, with cat, meant to show how a user could personalize a phone.
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    A working Spiral 1 prototype between two Spiral 0 design models. At long last, the phone is up and running.
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