Google's Project Ara will come to consumers in 2017

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — If you've been wondering what's going on with Google's effort to create modular smartphones, also known as Project Ara, wonder no more. At the company's I/O developer conference, Google showed the progress it's made in building phones that let users swap individual components (like the camera) in and out like they're AA batteries. It also revealed its timetable for Ara's release, with the official developer version coming in the fall and a consumer model arriving so