Remember Project ara? The initiative from Google that allows consumers to customize their own smartphone, the device consist of modules each with a different function (One module might be the CPU, another module the camera, another module the battery and so on) so users can configure the device to meet their needs. A Good example is if you love photography but never use bluetooth, you could put a better camera module on the device and remove the Bluetooth module. (See also: Phoneblocks)
Several months back Google have users the chance to join a beta program, as of now more then 90.000 people have signed up to try and win 1 of the first 100 free Project Ara smartphones, Google has just announced the winners. Here is the count of winners for each country:
- United States: 31
- Spain: 5
- Canada: 2
- Germany: 10
- Italy: 8
- Switzerland: 3
- UK: 6
- Russia: 1
- New Zealand: 2
- Japan: 1
- China: 1
- Malaysia: 1
- Lithuania: 1
- India: 3
- France: 3
- Ireland: 1
- Brazil: 1
- Ukraine: 1
- Belgium: 2
- 17 people with unknown locations
You can look on the first if you are one of the lucky winners here. Are you one of the lucky? Let us know!
