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This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials (www.hackster.io)
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I think they're having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution. The fastest way to accomplish this is just buying some flipphone from Kyocera or something.

Also it's a prototype. It wouldn't survive in the real world in it's current state.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I think they're having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution.

    Possibly, thus my point - reinventing the wheel.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I wouldn't consider it reinventing the wheel. Giant algae tanks to replace trees is reinventing the wheel. They're just making a phone out of parts that would have originally been in a cheap phone at one point (before they got turned into development boards).

    If I wanted to be super uncharitable, what the maker did was akin to this.

    https://youtu.be/d59J78yhwtg

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    I wouldn't consider it reinventing the wheel

    I do. What they are trying to create already exists. What is really needed is non intrusive software rather than hardware.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Which already exists and has existed for ages.

    Lineage os (Android), e/os (Android), postmarket os (straight up Linux) would all be excellent answers for cutdown/debloatable mobile phone OSes. (also Ubuntu touch and whatever the pinephone shipped with)

    Its probably a lot harder making an unintrusive os than it is making this.

    This is cutdown hardware leading to simplified and cutdown software as it's a necessity here.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This is cutdown hardware leading to simplified and cutdown software as it's a necessity here.

    I strongly disagree. Spyware, bloatware, forced updates etc are a function of profit driven choice, not the necessity.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm not sure if I'm missing something or not.

    I was referring to the Arduino phone. In general you're not wrong.

    The scope of the conversation is just the phone itself.

    Hardware was designed first, and then they applied software.

    Edit: when I meant necessity for the cut down software. I meant it as in "the Arduino is barely fast enough to run the software, any extraneous thing needs to go"

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hardware was designed first, and then they applied software.

    You don't need to redesign a hardware. It is software which needs redesigning, within the existing hardware.

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