Project Ara may not have had the staring role at I/O today, but that didn’t stop Google’s modular phone from making history in its scant moments on-stage. The Google ATAP session was dominated by Projects Soli and Jacquard, but Ara made a one-final-thing appearance at the very end to show off its now-functional hot-swappable modules and even demonstrate its camera skills.

Efforts to show a booting Ara at I/O last year weren’t a success, with the “demo gods” failing to smile on Google’s efforts. This time around there was no such hesitancy: after the various modules were snapped into place on the “endo” skeleton framework, ATAP software lead Rafa Camargo hit the power button and the device booted into Android.

Actually, though, not every slot on the “endo” was occupied. Camargo had left the camera module off, opting to slide it into place when the phone was already running.
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