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Can I just have a wifi only phone and then have a separate wifi hotspot that actually does the connecting to the cell network? The hotspot wouldn't be "owned" b
by skizm 6y ago
Can I just have a wifi only phone and then have a separate wifi hotspot that actually does the connecting to the cell network? The hotspot wouldn't be "owned" but the phone could be.
- xnyan 6y agoYou’ve drilled down to the critical issue - batteries. For better or worse, we have observed there’s a limit as to how much stuff people will willingly carry on the regular. Current phones barely fit in that space envelope. Make a phone twice as big or require a separate device, and for most users this is equivalent to not carrying a cellphone. I don’t think the current dominance of the big two can end until the hardware and software requirements of making a good phone are much much more accessible to normal developers/engineers than they are today.
- GoOnThenDoTell 6y agoYou can make the phone 5 times thicker though, I remember the late 90s and it was still carried everywhere
- fsflover 6y agoThat's what Purism did with Librem 5. Wifi and cellular modem are both removable.
- taneq 6y agoYou could essentially do just that using a small tablet or other device (Raspberry Pi?) and VOIP calling through a WiFi hotspot.