I remember having to remove the battery of one of my phones to change the SIM card. It was particularly annoying because that phone/SIM had issues registering so I would have to reinsert the SIM card a few times and reboot each time.
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day agoit can make calls, and send texts," LuckyBor writes of the project, which perhaps stretches the definition of “smartphone”
… And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.
Take the first one off the shelf smartfone, wipe out the entire software, replace it with bloat free, spyware free, update free equivalent and voila!
Absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel, this is a road to nowhere.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
… And you need to remove the screen to insert a sim card. Now tell me again this is not ridiculous.
Lmao, it prob doesn’t even have a working software kit, you would have to arduino some shit yourself.
I don’t think you understood what this is & who is it for.
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution. The fastest way to accomplish this is just buying some flipphone from Kyocera or something.
Also it’s a prototype. It wouldn’t survive in the real world in it’s current state.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution.
Possibly, thus my point - reinventing the wheel.
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I wouldn’t consider it reinventing the wheel. Giant algae tanks to replace trees is reinventing the wheel. They’re just making a phone out of parts that would have originally been in a cheap phone at one point (before they got turned into development boards).
If I wanted to be super uncharitable, what the maker did was akin to this.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wouldn’t consider it reinventing the wheel
I do. What they are trying to create already exist. What is really needed is non intrusive software rather than hardware.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I do not think you understand what a hobby prototype means, educate yourself then come talk amongst adults
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My son put a lego car toghther yesterday. Look, a hobby prototype! 🙄
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Congratulations, looks like your son has a chance to grow up to be a sensible and creative adult, unlike his wet fart of a father
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder how many fucking morons will try to defend this idiocy. Congratulations, you are on the level of 5y/o and so is the creator of this useless junk.