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But do phones have to be so powerful? If they are dumb terminals, could we get smaller form factors, longer battery life and make them more disposable for the b
by cjmcqueen 10y ago
But do phones have to be so powerful? If they are dumb terminals, could we get smaller form factors, longer battery life and make them more disposable for the billions of people that cant pay $$$ for a device?
- bitwize 10y agoYou do realize that the radios in a phone eat more battery than the CPU under regular compute workloads?
- reitoei 10y agoA dumb terminal would still need some kind of network stack (munchy munchy battery life). Maybe something like a kindle but with apps like WhatsApp, Twitter etc. optimized for e-ink displays. I saw a kind of interesting device recently with a regular screen on the front and e-ink screen on the back, the Yotaphone 2: https://yotaphone.com/gb-en/ https://yotaphone.com/gb-en/ Very cool, I think.