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Can someone get one to me in Australia? (Happy to pay)

by voltagex_ 11y ago

listic 11y ago
Will reshipping service like Shipito work for you? https://shipito.com https://shipito.com
- anon1mous 11y ago
  Shipito is beyond awful.
  - foldor 11y ago
    Hey, I was just looking at Shipito, and it was looking pretty handy to me as a Canadian. What did you dislike?
    - anon1mous 11y ago
      The problems start once your package is in their warehouse. Sometime they increase the price, sometime they keep asking for more and more proofs of identity, income, address. Sometime they refuse to accept documents not verified in an US embassy in your country. If you refuse their demands they keep/steal your package. Just go on a few review sites and search for Shipito.
  - hacker234 11y ago
    Huh? Works fine for me...
  - listic 11y ago
    What's awful about Shipito? It worked for me.
psykovsky 11y ago
Does Australia use CDMA and not GSM?
- david-given 11y ago
  I think it uses GSM. But even then, it'd probably still be worth it simply as an ARM-in-a-box-with-wifi-battery-screen-and-input-device. I've been wondering about the hackability of a cheapo Sony Ericsson featurephone, available in the UK for about £10, for much the same reason. With this thing, I'd much prefer to wipe Android from it completely and install a custom Linux (or BSD) distribution, to get more control over how it works. Unfortunately, while this is most likely possible, by the time it gets stable the phone will probably have vanished from the market. The profit margin on these cheap devices is so slow it only takes a tiny market shift to drive them into unprofitability.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    I've been stalling on a project to run Debian on the Nexus 4 - maybe an older device would be easier (?). It's Qualcomm, so maybe the same serial-over-headphone jack trick works [1] 1: http://blog.voltagex.org/2015/08/01/booting-the-nexus-4-from-scratch/ http://blog.voltagex.org/2015/08/01/booting-the-nexus-4-from...
    - david-given 11y ago
      I am, right now, trying to beat a Nexus 7 into running stock Linux. I am failing. Looks like Ubuntu, Bodhi and something else all came out with distros for the N7, and then all gave up on them. The only current one is Ubuntu Touch, which is a total dead loss. (They've disabled apt-get...) At the moment I'm trying to run a Debian userland in a chroot, and it's not working particularly well. If only Android supported virtualisation!
      - voltagex_ 11y ago
        Blog about it and/or email me. It depends which Nexus 7, but your path will be something like mine: get a kernel running (even if it doesn't complete booting), get libhybris [1] working, get userland working. You're going to need some kind of serial-out for this. 1: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/porters https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/porte... Edit: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo may be useful for both of us

Can someone get one to me in Australia? (Happy to pay)

listic 11y ago

Will reshipping service like Shipito work for you? https://shipito.com https://shipito.com

anon1mous 11y ago
Shipito is beyond awful.
- foldor 11y ago
  Hey, I was just looking at Shipito, and it was looking pretty handy to me as a Canadian. What did you dislike?
  - anon1mous 11y ago
    The problems start once your package is in their warehouse. Sometime they increase the price, sometime they keep asking for more and more proofs of identity, income, address. Sometime they refuse to accept documents not verified in an US embassy in your country. If you refuse their demands they keep/steal your package. Just go on a few review sites and search for Shipito.
- hacker234 11y ago
  Huh? Works fine for me...
- listic 11y ago
  What's awful about Shipito? It worked for me.

psykovsky 11y ago

Does Australia use CDMA and not GSM?

david-given 11y ago
I think it uses GSM. But even then, it'd probably still be worth it simply as an ARM-in-a-box-with-wifi-battery-screen-and-input-device. I've been wondering about the hackability of a cheapo Sony Ericsson featurephone, available in the UK for about £10, for much the same reason. With this thing, I'd much prefer to wipe Android from it completely and install a custom Linux (or BSD) distribution, to get more control over how it works. Unfortunately, while this is most likely possible, by the time it gets stable the phone will probably have vanished from the market. The profit margin on these cheap devices is so slow it only takes a tiny market shift to drive them into unprofitability.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I've been stalling on a project to run Debian on the Nexus 4 - maybe an older device would be easier (?). It's Qualcomm, so maybe the same serial-over-headphone jack trick works [1] 1: http://blog.voltagex.org/2015/08/01/booting-the-nexus-4-from-scratch/ http://blog.voltagex.org/2015/08/01/booting-the-nexus-4-from...
  - david-given 11y ago
    I am, right now, trying to beat a Nexus 7 into running stock Linux. I am failing. Looks like Ubuntu, Bodhi and something else all came out with distros for the N7, and then all gave up on them. The only current one is Ubuntu Touch, which is a total dead loss. (They've disabled apt-get...) At the moment I'm trying to run a Debian userland in a chroot, and it's not working particularly well. If only Android supported virtualisation!
    - voltagex_ 11y ago
      Blog about it and/or email me. It depends which Nexus 7, but your path will be something like mine: get a kernel running (even if it doesn't complete booting), get libhybris [1] working, get userland working. You're going to need some kind of serial-out for this. 1: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/porters https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/porte... Edit: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo may be useful for both of us