Exclusive - Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts: sources

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company's hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

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