Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung

Re:Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung by sifar on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:16PM (#16485244)

What would be the price you and the GP be willing to pay for this ? What screen size do you expect ?

I have been thinking about this lately - about building one for myself. I don't like andriod/ios smartphones and every time my phone breaks down for some non-replaceable component, I have to hunt for a new phone which isn't either.

Something similar to this - http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph... Make it product worthy, with a browser and a simpler os which users can understand and modify. Which doesn't cripple the hw, exposes it to the user to exploit it, is modular so the parts can be swapped.

But then I realize not using a smartphone would be a simpler solution.

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Re:Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung by jcadam on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:40PM (#16487298)

Screen size - something the size of the iPhone SE or Xperia Compact would be about right. I could see paying ~$200 for something like this, depending on feature set (I don't imagine you need particularly high-end specs considering you aren't going to be driving FMV or 3D games).

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