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Re:OpenMoko: 10 Years After by petecox on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:12AM (#14845069)
The Pi zero phone is a cool hack but I doubt many would opt to use it as a 'daily driver'.

Broadcom, according to the wikipedia page for VideoCore, did however make a couple of Cortex-A9/A7 SoCs that made their way into low end 2012-3 era Android phones.

Perhaps a startup might recycle old Broadcom-based HTC and Samsung models in collaboration with the RPi team.

Re:OpenMoko: 10 Years After by digi_owl on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:48AM (#14845659)
Perhaps. Thing is though that by bring a generic stack of boards, it does not live or die by that one project.

A RPiZ with a mobile data connection but no screen is still a potential IoT platform etc.

Openmoko with its bespoke board lived or died by how well it performed as a phone.