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The rig is not the important part of this article. What is extremely cool is Samsung supporting upcycling initiatives and going as far as having approved ways o

The rig is not the important part of this article. What is extremely cool is Samsung supporting upcycling initiatives and going as far as having approved ways of unlocking and replacing the OS in the devices with stuff such as Ubuntu Core and others. This could be huge! I believe a better title would be something related to the upcycling project.

agumonkey 9y ago
reminds me of the os project .. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postmarketos&t=ffsb&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postmarketos&t=ffsb&ia=web
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
  Postmarket OS seems very useful. Would be great if Samsung provides resources to this already existing project instead of starting their own. For example Samsung could help port more Samsung devices to Post market OS and help with drivers (for example, looking at supported devices, I see audio is missing).
JamesLeonis 9y ago
Agreed. I think we all have a few phones stashed away. This makes them immediately useful. I would love for this trend to continue in more companies. So much working hardware is tossed away needlessly. It's also smart for Samsung. It encourages a secondary market for their old phones, increasing prices, and nudging their customers to "turn over" to a newer phone with the higher resell value.
hathvi 9y ago
This made me excited to see as well. Here's some more information for others that may be interested. https://youtu.be/J1bK3TxdMeI https://youtu.be/J1bK3TxdMeI Skip to 9 minutes for a more fluent english speaker that I found much easier to follow. He mentions wiping Android, installing some base OS and using Docker at 12:25 in the video. The website http://upcycling.io/ http://upcycling.io/
- CommanderData 9y ago
  This is a great idea from Samsung. A phone has everything needed to become a useful IoT device. But how would I connect sensors and other things to the phone?
  - ISKthrow 9y ago
    USB-OTG?

agumonkey 9y ago

reminds me of the os project .. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postmarketos&t=ffsb&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postmarketos&t=ffsb&ia=web

em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
Postmarket OS seems very useful. Would be great if Samsung provides resources to this already existing project instead of starting their own. For example Samsung could help port more Samsung devices to Post market OS and help with drivers (for example, looking at supported devices, I see audio is missing).

JamesLeonis 9y ago

Agreed. I think we all have a few phones stashed away. This makes them immediately useful. I would love for this trend to continue in more companies. So much working hardware is tossed away needlessly. It's also smart for Samsung. It encourages a secondary market for their old phones, increasing prices, and nudging their customers to "turn over" to a newer phone with the higher resell value.

hathvi 9y ago

This made me excited to see as well. Here's some more information for others that may be interested. https://youtu.be/J1bK3TxdMeI https://youtu.be/J1bK3TxdMeI Skip to 9 minutes for a more fluent english speaker that I found much easier to follow. He mentions wiping Android, installing some base OS and using Docker at 12:25 in the video. The website http://upcycling.io/ http://upcycling.io/

CommanderData 9y ago
This is a great idea from Samsung. A phone has everything needed to become a useful IoT device. But how would I connect sensors and other things to the phone?
- ISKthrow 9y ago
  USB-OTG?