Comment by computerex
7 years ago
I hear you. Coming from a desktop app development background, I never got into mobile development because from far away it looks so constrained. I dream of a phone where I can use its hardware in whatever way I want.
That's exactly the motivation behind this phone, which has a simple OS and a connector on the back of it for hardware expansion:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/338898127?re...
It's less powerful than a smartphone, but designed from the ground up for hardware hacking.
disclaimer: I am part of the WiPhone project
PostmarketOS seems promising...it doesn't have great hardware support right not but I see no reason that couldn't change.
Hardware support is hard, that's why this normally fails, unfortunately.
I do not doubt that at all. I know almost nothing about systems programming. If I did, I would almost certainly contribute.
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