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Anybody have a guide on how one might make custom phone using webos? I asked just a while ago on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8450744/resources-on-how

by agentgt 15y ago

Anybody have a guide on how one might make custom phone using webos? I asked just a while ago on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8450744/resources-on-how-build-your-own-mobile-phone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8450744/resources-on-how-... (I just know my karma is going to get trashed for cross posting)

runjake 15y ago
Your best bet would be to find an existing (probably Qualcomm MSM) ARM-based Android phone with supported hardware drivers and an unlocked bootloader that you really like, and port WebOS to that. Porting WebOS to such devices has been accomplished to small extents in the past by hackers on xda-developers.com. Here's one such example reported on today: http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2624350/webos-hacked-together-for-htcs-evo-3d-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-time http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2624350/webos-hacked-toget... As you likely don't have the fab facilities, any phone you'd build from off the shelf parts would resemble the lunchbox-sized cell phones of the 80s. I built one several years back with a Gumstix board and a GSM module from (I believe) Sparkfun.com. Though it only did SMS and Data, no voice (wasn't interested).