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Android phones are useles... no ethernet, no gpio, shitty cooling, hard to get an OS installed, hard to debug, and compared to RPI4, too expensive. RPi4 is gre
by ajsnigrutin 6y ago
Android phones are useles... no ethernet, no gpio, shitty cooling, hard to get an OS installed, hard to debug, and compared to RPI4, too expensive.
RPi4 is great... small cheap, basically a full pc in a small box, with low power usage, low heat production, no noise, and yes... with a shitty storage solution.
- gtf21 6y agoI think the parent comment was just pointing out that the storage solution should work fine, given how many android devices use it.
- kingosticks 6y agoSome Android phones use (or used to use?) flash-friendly file system formats like F2FS, JFFS2, YAFFS2. I'm not sure if that's still a thing but it would be interesting to know the pros and cons of using one of those instead. Interesting I did find they are/were considering F2FS for the RPi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=273490&sid=42e60b4d39e91e7ca677c2e35ebd8861 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=2734...
- Rebelgecko 6y agoEven with the cost of a $5 ethernet adapter, you can get Android phones significantly cheaper than a Raspberry Pi. GPIO is a bit trickier, since most devices don't break it out, but for some purposes the audio jack is usable. There's also USB-GPIO adapters but they can be a bit pricey (although if you're interfacing with something like an ESP32 BLE works really well)