



Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside just finished up a Google+ Hangouts interview with Marques Brownlee where he talked about the Moto X as well as Project Ara. Woodside said that Phoneblox does have a prototype that is "pretty close", but the problem is the interface to allow the various components to directly speak to the motherboard. Right now, there are no standards to allow the speaker, camera etc. to talk directly to the motherboard yet. But, this is an issue that Motorola wants to fix. In very Google-like fashion, Motorola wants to create the open standard rather than building proprietary solutions.





Woodside also hinted that when the product is ready, which will be a while, the plan is to offer it through Moto Maker. In the meantime, Moto Maker will be expanded with new materials offered. He made it sound like it won't stop with the wood backs, but didn't give specifics, though he did say that the wooden options were coming "very soon". While Project Ara is in development, users can even sign up with the project's DScout page to get information, and even be called on for missions.



