Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin...
by ZenoArrow on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:59AM
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I think the Pyra even has an (optional?) modem module you could potentially make calls with (using a Bluetooth headset rather than sidetalking-style ;-)):
Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin...
by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:59AM
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Yeah, but it costs 100 euros extra.
Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin...
by morganvachon on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:36PM
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> If you're going on the cheap, you can always hack together a Raspberry Pi and a tiny screen, keyboard, and battery into something semi-workable, and use a phone for the rest.
You can get a GSM board from Adafruit fairly cheaply, which would give you 3G data and voice/SMS on a Pi. You'd have to do your own wiring, but if you're building something like this that wouldn't be a problem. Throw a Ting SIM in there (or your other favorite carrier) and you're good to go.
Basically a mobile phone version of Bunnie's Novena laptop, though not quite as open source (at least not until Broadcom finishes opening up the RPi's processor).
Another interesting project which might fill my desire for a true mobile computer (if only I could afford it) is the Pyra, the more powerful successor to the Pandora. But at $~500-$~600, it may not be worth it, and it still hasn't actually released yet (although the company did make the Pandora, so they have a history of Getting Stuff Done).
If you're going on the cheap, you can always hack together a Raspberry Pi and a tiny screen, keyboard, and battery into something semi-workable, and use a phone for the rest.