Google hopes to launch its ‘build-it-yourself’ Project Ara smartphone next year and in preparation, the technology giant is accepting applications for_its first development boards. With these, developers can begin prototyping and constructing their own modules for the Ara platform. With the open-source MDK released during Google I/O, these could be cameras, antennas, batteries, processors – anything that can latch on to the Project Ara module shell. As Eduardo Ruiz points out on Google+, yesterday developers were told that Google is now accepting applications for its Project Ara test boards. A request form is available online and the first round of...

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