Google’s modular smartphone is officially delayed, with tests pushed back to 2016. The program, called Project Ara, was to begin testing in Puerto Rico later this year, but now both the date and the place are uncertain, as developers work toward finding a new test market. Project Ara seeks to create a modular cell phone, one in which components can be replaced piecemeal. This means that if, say, big advances are made in optics; the camera can be swapped out without sacrificing the rest of its phone. It’s a long promised technology that’s remained elusive vaporware up to this point. Project Ara is far from the only example of a modular smartphone—there’s also Fonkraft, which was pulled from Indiegogo in May; Vsenn, which shuttered earlier in June; and Puzzle Phone, which was set for sometime this year but hasn’t updated its blog since February.

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