$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown

Re:$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown by keithpeter on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @01:03AM (#9568217)

"iFixit would approve of the H3. All you need to take it apart is a Phillips head screwdriver."

Would that imply hand-assembly in a small factory rather than large batch production?

I gather from the OA that this is basically a reference design using SoC components. Just wondering if there will ever be a Web site where I could spec a made-to-order phone in the same way that I can spec a cheap laptop? So I could have (say) a high quality sound recorder chip with 3.5mm input socket for an external microphone added to an otherwise standard phone? Or a really good camera chip?

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Re:$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown by fleitz on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:36AM (#9568559)

Can you post a link to where to spec cheap laptops?

I dislike buying laptops because I can't find anywhere that does them custom for a reasonable price.

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Re:$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown by zz1 on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @07:11AM (#9569147)

Here you can spec them. Not cheap though: https://www.mysn.de

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Re:$34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown by xnzakg on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:35AM (#9568556)

Project Ara!

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