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Even if half of the hardware features don't work, having a working, standards based linux image for old cell phones is super useful for prototyping random IoT d
by justinsaccount 9y ago
Even if half of the hardware features don't work, having a working, standards based linux image for old cell phones is super useful for prototyping random IoT devices.
An old cell phone is like a raspberry pi, if a pi had a built in touchscreen, camera, microphone, battery, wifi, and gps.
- maxaf 9y agoI've worked for an IoT company once where random old Android phones were sometimes called "best Raspberry Pi ever made".
- flamedoge 9y agoThere's quite a truth to that. I have used old smartphone as a dashcam with offline maps/navigation in one single package in the past.
- Animats 9y agoI use old EeePC subnotebooks for that, which I get on eBay for about $40. Compute power, WiFi, wired Ethernet, USB, a keyboard, screen, trackpad, battery backup, and case. With a Raspberry Pi you usually have to add peripherals just to talk to the thing. When I get one in I immediately install Xubuntu from a USB stick and do a total wipe. (If you do this, get a real ASUS power supply. The cheapo ones with no brand and no UL certification overheat. Fires have been reported.)
- agumonkey 9y agoYeah, as many laptops at first I was very happy to be able to have a posix os running for "basic" (if emacs can be called basic) tasks. Very very happy to know there's alpine for phones now.
- floatboth 9y agoAnd if it didn't have a convenient array of GPIO pins.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoTrue, but lots of us don't care about that
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