Inside Google’s plan to help you build the smartphone of your dreams We've written at length about Google's modular smartphone Project Ara in the past, but substantial updates have been few and far between. With just a week left until*the first developers conference for the device, MIT Tech**logy Review has spoken with Paul Eremenko, the project lead, and*Ara Knaian (after whom the project was named), who give us*a little more context to the modular device and attempting to explain how it fits into a very crowded, competitive market.