Smartphones officially got a little bit more like regular PCs today with Morotola's announcement of Project Ara, a modularized smartphone design that will let users pick their own components.The concept appears to work in the same way as a barebones laptop chassis, which can be outfitted with whichever parts a hobbyist chooses to install. Motorola says that the idea is to bring an open aesthetic to mobile hardware.[MORE MOBILE:Apple iOS apps subject to man-in-the-middle attacks]"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," wrote Paul Eremenko, of the company's advanced technology and pr
