Google owned company Motorola unveil plans for customisable smart phone
MOTOROLA have lifted the lid on plans to create a customisable smartphone today.
The Google owned telecommunications firm are working on a modular gadget where owners can detach components and upgrade it to suit their preferences.
The initiative is called Project Ara and the company have received recent input from Phonebloks creator Dave Hakkens.
Dutch designer Mr Hakkens has drawn up plans for a customisable phone which can be built like Lego where things can be removed and replaced easily.
Project Ara is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones
A statement on a Motorola blog said: "Project Ara is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.
"We want to do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress development timelines."
Motorola said their Project Ara design consists of an endoskeleton which holds all of the components of the phone together.
Modules are then removed or added to suit an owner's needs, and modules could be a processor, a camera, an extra battery or a new display.
The company said they have been working on the idea for more than a year and that developers will be invited to create modules within a few months.
The release concept images of the phone to which showed a device with lots of different colour schemes and a tiled style casing.
Motorola said they will release more information on the project within the next few months.
Click play above to watch a video describing the Phonebloks concept