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Me too. What if a company made this? And made it repairable, with a removable battery, so that you could buy one and keep it forever if you wanted? And a littl

by ra88it 9y ago

Me too. What if a company made this? And made it repairable, with a removable battery, so that you could buy one and keep it forever if you wanted? And a little cottage industry could form around it for 3rd party accessories (which also would continue to work as long as you kept them repaired)? Are we not at the point where this seems like a novel idea and actually has a chance of "disrupting" the smart phone industry? edit: sorry, I just took a very specific thing that I want, and pretended you want it too, when the only thing we both necessarily want is an efficient, e-ink display on a small, lightweight phone.

jcadam 9y ago
Yep, maybe not a big enough market for one of the established mass-market phone mfgrs to care, but possibly enough to support a decent niche (a la Pebble, etc.)
sifar 9y ago
What would be the price you and the GP be willing to pay for this ? What screen size do you expect ? I have been thinking about this lately - about building one for myself. I don't like andriod/ios smartphones and every time my phone breaks down for some non-replaceable component, I have to hunt for a new phone which isn't either. Something similar to this - http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartphone/ http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph... Make it product worthy, with a browser and a simpler os which users can understand and modify. Which doesn't cripple the hw, exposes it to the user to exploit it, is modular so the parts can be swapped. But then I realize not using a smartphone would be a simpler solution.
- jcadam 9y ago
  Screen size - something the size of the iPhone SE or Xperia Compact would be about right. I could see paying ~$200 for something like this, depending on feature set (I don't imagine you need particularly high-end specs considering you aren't going to be driving FMV or 3D games).

by ra88it 9y ago

jcadam 9y ago

Yep, maybe not a big enough market for one of the established mass-market phone mfgrs to care, but possibly enough to support a decent niche (a la Pebble, etc.)

sifar 9y ago

What would be the price you and the GP be willing to pay for this ? What screen size do you expect ? I have been thinking about this lately - about building one for myself. I don't like andriod/ios smartphones and every time my phone breaks down for some non-replaceable component, I have to hunt for a new phone which isn't either. Something similar to this - http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartphone/ http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph... Make it product worthy, with a browser and a simpler os which users can understand and modify. Which doesn't cripple the hw, exposes it to the user to exploit it, is modular so the parts can be swapped. But then I realize not using a smartphone would be a simpler solution.

jcadam 9y ago
Screen size - something the size of the iPhone SE or Xperia Compact would be about right. I could see paying ~$200 for something like this, depending on feature set (I don't imagine you need particularly high-end specs considering you aren't going to be driving FMV or 3D games).