Endoskeletons and modules? Check out Motorola’s new phone…

Motorola has announced the development of an open hardware platform that will allow users to create their own modular devices.

Aiming to create a “third-party developer ecosystem”, Project Ara is Motorola’s latest advance in smartphone technology.

“Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationships between users, developers, and their phones,” the Google-owned company said in a blog post.

“To give [the user] the power to decide what [their] phone does, how it looks, where and what it’s made of, how much it costs, and how long [they’ll] keep it.”

The design for Project Ara consists of an endoskeleton and modules; the endoskeleton is the structural frame that holds all the module in place, while a module can be anything from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard or an extra battery.

“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 explained.

More details of the project are expected to be unveiled in the coming months.