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I don't see it as clickbait since the realities of the Android ecosystem is a shared context. Most people know that just about every Android phone has a restri
by lovelearning 5mo ago
I don't see it as clickbait since the realities of the Android ecosystem is a shared context.
Most people know that just about every Android phone has a restricted hardware design, not an expandable one.
So, "turn your phone into X" is bound to automatically evoke images of another device that plugs into the phone via common connectors like USB or the audio jack and an app on the phone to control that device. That's what the phrase means to most people in the context of Android.
"Turn your phone into a ham radio transceiver controller" is neither needed nor entirely accurate, because then people will assume it can control _any_ ham radio transceiver.
- lxgr 5mo ago"Turn your phone into a nuclear reactor (by plugging it into a wall outlet served by a nuclear power plant)"
- developer786 5mo agoWhy do some people get so hung up about minor things in life. The OP has done a fantastic job, not just building it, but both the delivery and mechanics.
- lxgr 5mo agoI agree, it is a fantastic job! The title is still misleading to me. Not terribly so – hence my not quite serious reply – but I was expecting something like https://timestation.pages.dev/ https://timestation.pages.dev/, which actually transmits using included hardware only.
- lovelearning 5mo agoVery funny. However, your analogy is not equivalent to, nor an example for, what I said. There's a difference between a phone's own USB/audiojack interfaces and a wall outlet.
- Crunchified 5mo agoThe article is chiefly about a radio circuit you can "build", plus some controller software that happens to run on an Android phone. Meanwhile the headline is 100% focused on describing something that your phone can be made to do (which you have admitted that it can't). The two don't add up, and your apologetic analysis doesn't convince me otherwise. It's still clickbait. An Android cell phone has radio guts, and that headline is just gutless.
- lovelearning 5mo agoIt's not "apologetic" and it wasn't meant to convince you but to refute your pointless pedantic nitpicking for other readers.