shoaibmerchant

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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
The LTE modem will be available on the Pledge Manager. We are currently testing with Quectel EM05, works really well - calling, messaging, data all have been tested. PlaMo dialer app already works, there is a demo somewhere on the KS page.
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here, There are a bunch of them added to the Kickstarter page, check them out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-com... We are updating them on Kickstarter
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here, For the IMX8MP - The pinephone was 1.2 GHz, this is 1.8 GHz on all four cores. As far as geekbench goes it hits between the Pi 3 and Pi 4, faster EMMC and LPDDR4 gives it a bigger boost compared to the Pi 3. The PCIe 3.0 is al
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here We are currently testing with LTE modem (Quectel EM05). We are yet to test with 5G Modems but similar sized 3042 (M.2) are available albeit expensive.
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
No absolutely not, everything is uncomplicated intentionally. Plus it is open hardware.
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here, We haven't because it isn't primarily a phone. But we will eventually. But the folks at PlaMo are testing their dialer app and it works fine.
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here. I can completely understand the skepticism, any startup today releasing something and promising to support will be taken with a grain of salt. I cannot guarantee that Mecha will not run out of business in 7 years. But at the v
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by shoaibmerchant 8mo ago
Creator here, thanks for highlighting this. We are currently following the NXP IMX downstream kernel, that is why you can check the 'imx-' prefix on our branch, their releases follow 6 months after the LTS release. NXP IMX 6.18 wi
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by shoaibmerchant 2y ago
Founder here, that would be me. I have spent countless hours on this :D
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by shoaibmerchant 2y ago
Founder here, the reason to not put spring contacts on extensions is to make it easy for anyone to make extensions by just exposing solder contacts or hand soldering small discs. But we will evaluate more on the endurance part and take a ca
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by shoaibmerchant 2y ago
Founder here, thank you for this note we will build a jig to test this out and share results on our docs. One of the things we have done to reduce wear over time is that the spring contact is on the device and we expose a very small contact
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by shoaibmerchant 2y ago
Disclaimer: Founder here M5 is based on ESP32 so it is microcontroller based so you are limited to things a MCU can do. But yea I love the M5 platform, funnily I am here at CES and met the Founder of M5 just yesterday!