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Make a screen+mobo+speakers+... (the top 1/3 of a phone), give it an SD slot, and make it a unit that clicks onto a generic battery. Case makers will fill in th
by rhizome 6y ago
Make a screen+mobo+speakers+... (the top 1/3 of a phone), give it an SD slot, and make it a unit that clicks onto a generic battery. Case makers will fill in the rest.
- TylerE 6y agoYes, because if there's anything PinePhone needs it's to be even more obtuse and expensive.
- marcodiego 6y agoActually I think a better idea could be a common chassis. The common chassis could provide power, (touch)screen, buttons, audio, IMU, NFC, light/distance sensors, barometer, thermometer, cameras and leds; it could connect to the motherboard through pogopins using USB-C standard. This allows video, power and USB hub to expose the rest of the hardware to the mobo. The mobo could have slots in the back similar to librem-5; theses slots would hold sd, wifi and modem cards. I foresee 3 groups for whom this maybe interesting: pine64, purism and fairphone. I really think there is a market for a common platform to make linux phones competitive against alternatives on price too.
- akiselev 6y agoDo they make impedance controlled pogo pins for differential signals? I’m not aware of any pins that can reliably do more than high speed USB2
- marcodiego 6y agoI'm not an EE, I really don't know... Maybe a standard USB-C could connect the motherboard to the chassis then. Still, it is possible with currently available tech.