Google's project Ara got the attention of the whole world as soon as it was officially announced in February 2014. Knowing the fact that Toshiba and Einfochips are working as partners for Google's project to provide the chips, there are reports that the enterprise has started showing camera modules and the modules will be available in two versions i.e. 13 megapixels and 5 megapixels and a 2 megapixel front facing module.
According
to the official statement from Shardul Kazi who is the Senior Vice President of
Toshiba, the enterprise has fabricated three design modules, one of them is a receiver
bar i.e. the 2 MP module coming on top of the Display module, the second being
the 5 MP module which has a built-in ISP and the final one being the 13 MP
module that supports high frame rate and bright mode. The whole is supposedly
divided in 3 phases. The basic phone functions to be covered in the first are features like NFC module, WPC module, Memory module; and the Transfer Jet is to
be covered in second phase and the third phase will cover some interesting and
unique features which are undisclosed yet.
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Toshiba's plan is to complete the work on these modules by 2016 with Google planning to introduce the Project Ara phones in a limited market pilot project before or by 2015. This project was started with the vision to create fully personalized phones and that too at affordable prices and now with the Mobile World Conference starting from March 2, there are expectations that 50 modular components along with working phones are going to be presented in it.