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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What are the chances we get custom built/open source phones?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cellphone/overview

This thing comes to mind. It's not exactly an attractive phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's closer to what I was thinking. That is pretty neat though, now we just need to make it smaller and more modular, and I'm not sure of there is a CDMA option as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Closes one I can think of is, The Fair Phone https://www.fairphone.com

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Repairable, not free

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Nearly zero