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Re:Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced by hinkley on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:50AM (#24089643)
I suspect if someone were ready to pounce on the Oxide source code when it comes out, that one might make a go of a properly open portable handheld device by adding some drivers and snipping a few bits off. Radios might be the hardest things to sort out, since people seem to like to keep those as proprietary as hell, and WiFi is merely okay now.

Sounds like starlink antennae won’t be small enough for a long time, so that leaves who besides Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Apple?

Re:Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced by als0 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:31AM (#24090779)
Mediatek make modems
Re:Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced by walterbell on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:07AM (#24090998)
Oxide?
Re:Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced by hinkley on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:42PM (#24094542)
Brian Cantrell is off trying to build server hardware based on Open firmware. Which likely means they’ll have to write a lot of it themselves.