Open Source Cell Phone
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Basics
- A simple phone that is capable calls and text messages
Used For
- Communication
Industry Standards
Existing Open Source Designs
Dooba Trill
http://dooba.io/en/articles/59
bobricius design
Paul Gardner-Stephen - Leon Leondiades - Shelim Islam
- Chip - MTK - Qualcomm - mediatech
- Website: Amalogics, global light infrastructure
- Arduino integrated in cell phone
- 1B in china
- Huawei - http://www.huawei.com/en/ - 2 senior engineers have good knowledge how to make a low cost device for 10,000 phones
- Refundable deposit of $65k to Huawei - development cost for 2 prototypest
- They integrate chips, not make
- 10x development cost
- Electronic Frontier Foundation is hungry for OS cell phone in Ecuador
Basic Design
- Solid "Bar Phone", Clamshell/Flip Phone, or a Slide Phone, maybe all of these as different designs? (This needs t be determined)
- Easily swappable batteries (ie tool-less access) (Also one or two (for hot swapping) ?)
- Cellular Connection(3g/4g/4g lte/5g Need to decide)
- Sattalite Connection (this is a bit extreme, but global coverage is nice)
- Antennas (Internal or External?)
- Charging + Data Port (USB C possibly)
- Storage (SD or Micro-SD) (How Many GB?)
- OCI Board