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Prepaid mobile carriers offer "free" phones with one month of service. $25 a piece for Samsung a16 4-pack from Metro, if you only want 1 you can do $45 for a mo
by TGower 6mo ago
Prepaid mobile carriers offer "free" phones with one month of service. $25 a piece for Samsung a16 4-pack from Metro, if you only want 1 you can do $45 for a moto g power (8gb RAM) from Straight Talk. I've been using these as alternatives for SBC projects, cheap, battery and screen can be nice, most GPIO needs can be achieved by slapping on a $2 ESP32 clone over usb-serial. The supply will probably dry up soon, I think they might be eating a loss on just the RAM BOM.
- loloquwowndueo 6mo ago45 is still not 20 bucks.
- BizarroLand 6mo agoCheck your local pawn shops/thrift stores/antique stores/craigslist/kajiji/ebay. There's a good chance you will find an old android for about $20 that still works. For instance: https://www.ebay.com/itm/336183863624 https://www.ebay.com/itm/336183863624 Took me less than 1 minute to find.
- Skidaddle 6mo agoWon’t you have tons of driver problems though vs an RPi? It would be super convenient packaging as an SBC though !