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Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery. You could do it from com
by merpnderp 7y ago
Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery. You could do it from commodity parts and it would be trivially reparable by slapping in bits you cheaply order off Amazon/New Egg. And compared to 1980, it would still be mind bogglingly sci-fi - it just wouldn't be as sleek and svelte as your new iPhone.
But I do get your point. I do miss the days when my iPhone 4s would get horribly damaged, I'd order a part online, and a day later I have fixed it myself.
- chmod775 7y agoThat (kind of) phone already exists: https://www.fairphone.com/en/ https://www.fairphone.com/en/ It's pretty "brickish", but you can order replacement parts easily and service it yourself: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts/ https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts/
- lostgame 7y ago>> Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery But the real issue is what does it run? Android? Seems contrary to the point of building your own device. There has yet to be a serious Mobile OS in the FOSS world that’s not tied in to the evils of Google, and still has e.g. baseband or phone call support.
- merpnderp 7y agoI was envisioning basically and ultrabook set of hardware, so your favorite flavor of Linux would be the answer.