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Well, it is called WiPhone... There is a pretty clear issue with people getting grumpy once they learn it's not a bleeding edge smartphone. I don't know how to
by catherd 8y ago
Well, it is called WiPhone...
There is a pretty clear issue with people getting grumpy once they learn it's not a bleeding edge smartphone. I don't know how to solve it. Open to suggestions, but I think calling it a phone is perfectly reasonable and doesn't imply it's a smartphone. Just because all the big phone makers have sold us the idea that LTE and an OS you can play games on is absolutely essential doesn't mean this isn't a phone.
- em-bee 8y agoi meant the reference to a phone as in: WiPhone: A professionally-packaged Arduino wifi-phone or in the tag line WiPhone: An Open Source Wifi-Phone That's Really Yours the definition of a phone for me is a device that i can use make phone-calls 100% of the time and send sms messages. today that implies cell phone (GSM) support. it does not imply a smartphone, especially not a bleeding edge one, nor the ability to play games. (although games on the arduino are actually possible) btw: i have been traveling without a sim-card before (because i did not have roaming) and the success of finding wifi was more like 20% rather than 80%. rather frustrating.