> chip vendors won't talk to you if you are proposing to build a few thousand phones. So is all the bootleg crazy hardware produced and sold in Shenzhen basica

> chip vendors won't talk to you if you are proposing to build a few thousand phones. So is all the bootleg crazy hardware produced and sold in Shenzhen basically running the same firmware/driver blobs used in the West? Is there really nobody who has access to specs for even out-of-date shitty cameras, wifi modules, and old gpus?