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Another one? Remember OpenMoko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

mdp2021 3y ago
Quite different efforts: an attempt 15 years ago to create specifications vs "make some hardware a mobile phone". There also exist projects for Arduino.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  Ha, busted! I didn't look at the pics of this one. Quite different indeed. But the old one did have physical phones made, apparently.
  - seba_dos1 3y ago
    OpenMoko was a company that created, manufactured and sold a mobile phone and developed a complete FLOSS software stack based on GNU/Linux for it. From comparable modern projects there's Purism making both hardware (Librem 5) and software (PureOS, Phosh), or perhaps Pine64's hardware (PinePhone) combined with community-based software projects (like Mobian, postmarketOS, UBports, Plasma Mobile etc.) This one is a cute DIY hobbyist project that puts a SBC together with an off-the-shelf modem module. Fun stuff, but from an entirely different category of things.
riedel 3y ago
I well remember it. We bought a few for our research project, I think I have it still lying in my office shelf. My colleague build a crosscompiling tool chain based on arch as far as I remember. The only thing I cannot rember is using this actually as a phone...
- pabs3 3y ago
  I used it as a phone, the QtMoko distro was the most performant option it had at the time, but was a bit of a dumbphone style interface. I also ran the Enlightenment desktop using distros like SHR and Debian on it, which let you do a lot more but were a bit slower. The hardware was terrible in various ways.
- seba_dos1 3y ago
  I successfully used it as my main and only phone for a few years about 15 years ago before eventually switching to Nokia N900. It worked well as a phone, I'd probably have used it for a bit longer if it supported EDGE and didn't have a QVGA GPU attached to a high DPI screen.

mdp2021 3y ago

Quite different efforts: an attempt 15 years ago to create specifications vs "make some hardware a mobile phone". There also exist projects for Arduino.

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
Ha, busted! I didn't look at the pics of this one. Quite different indeed. But the old one did have physical phones made, apparently.
- seba_dos1 3y ago
  OpenMoko was a company that created, manufactured and sold a mobile phone and developed a complete FLOSS software stack based on GNU/Linux for it. From comparable modern projects there's Purism making both hardware (Librem 5) and software (PureOS, Phosh), or perhaps Pine64's hardware (PinePhone) combined with community-based software projects (like Mobian, postmarketOS, UBports, Plasma Mobile etc.) This one is a cute DIY hobbyist project that puts a SBC together with an off-the-shelf modem module. Fun stuff, but from an entirely different category of things.

riedel 3y ago

I well remember it. We bought a few for our research project, I think I have it still lying in my office shelf. My colleague build a crosscompiling tool chain based on arch as far as I remember. The only thing I cannot rember is using this actually as a phone...

pabs3 3y ago
I used it as a phone, the QtMoko distro was the most performant option it had at the time, but was a bit of a dumbphone style interface. I also ran the Enlightenment desktop using distros like SHR and Debian on it, which let you do a lot more but were a bit slower. The hardware was terrible in various ways.
seba_dos1 3y ago
I successfully used it as my main and only phone for a few years about 15 years ago before eventually switching to Nokia N900. It worked well as a phone, I'd probably have used it for a bit longer if it supported EDGE and didn't have a QVGA GPU attached to a high DPI screen.