https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computernew linux phone just dropped. Overfunded by a lot already. Does it look good /g/? What's the catch?
lmao
I wonder how hard it is to make a quality phone for yourself. As in like 1, not mass produced. Seems daunting and expensive.
>>108171689didn't this only fail because multiple different companies were paying for its development and couldn't agree on certain standards, and then because they couldn't agree it couldn't continue development?
>>108171717there's actually a lot of people online that do that, I saw a video of a high school kid make his own with some parts he bought onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0and there's the entire cyberdeck scene which is pretty much the same thing if you don't care about specifically cell service which is more or less useless nowadays anyway
>>108171689whatever hapoened with this?
>>108171747>make his ownstrong words, he just made a shell for an existing phone
>>108172080it's as close as you can get, really, though. Not much different from just buying a sbc and screen/etc and 3d printing a case for it.
>>108171747>a high school kid make his ownHe just made a different case for it. It's just a Samshit phone still.
>>108172262except for all the other parts he put into it
>>108171651Post the photo of the team :-)
>>108172835https://mecha.so/comet#teamoh no...
>>108172915Like pottery
>>108172915Why do they all have professional haircuts? That seems statistically unlikely.
>>108172915Bharat has fallen
>>108171651whop wants this and why? i dont get it.
>>108171651>maid computer thread
>>108172986billions must bath
>>108172985jeets all have the same hair, there's no diversity of curls or parting like in white people.>>108173384bathe*
>>108171651here we go again
>>108172986no, nothing ever happens.
>>108173363kys
>>108172915You really didn't have to dig deep to discover this (right in OP's link)>Mecha has been built by a small collective of individuals from India and all across the world with a passion to build hardware.
>>108172915>>108175469so who'd they steal the form factor from? Which other company is making something like this already?
>>108171651>phone>no SIM card slotuhhhhhhhhh what the fuck?
>>108171725no, it failed because the idea was shit, compact soldered all in one single system is more cost efficient and has better performance.
>>108171982killed due to cost overruns & google execs wanting to focus on pixela fair amount of the kernel work for project ara did get upstreamed into android so it wasnt a total loss
Has anyone ever used one of these gimmicky pocket computers for anything useful everThey exist to be owned, not operated
>Brown hand in photos>Shitty photoshop of deviceWasn't required to have a functional prototype before being able to sell shit on kickstarter?
>>108175927>the idea is shit if I pretend only things regular phones are good at have any value and the things that prototype was good at have no valueI bet you use pre-builts because you don't know how to build a computer either lol
>>108175435>go in maid computer thread>see computer maid in maid computer thread>become disgruntled
>>108171747>No demo of the phone even working as a phoneGrifters are becoming more sophisticated, but they're still easy to spot.
>>108176007uconsole owner for the last few weeks after a year of waiting.Good for basic stuff, runs on flat tops, and as the os is on an sd card you can really fuck around and fly as close to the sun as you want. It's just neat. It's way more fun doing stuff on some low spec brick I assembled than any of the other fancy over-engineered gadgets I have.
>>108171651jeet handKEK
>>108171725No, it failed because the interconnects had to be fixed, that limits everything in the design because you can only have so many IO interconnects per module. Trivial problem to solve however if you're not an NPC.
>>108171651>What's the catch?KickstarterIn the middle of RAM and storage shortageLPDDR5
>>108172986>bloody nothing ever benchod happens saaaar
All I want is a lightweight phone that's waterproof and supports band 13. Only the base Galaxy fits
>>108171689god i was so excited for aria >>108178023i remember hearing it was a driver issue back when it got cancelled? i think android at the time just wasnt capable of handling all that different hardware. would probably be quite doable now with treble
>>108171651I just want a phone with a physical keyboard and a removable battery. I can't believe that's so much to ask for. If it had a good camera, too I'd never need another phone.
>>108171651Why are there three new devices with physical keyboards coming out this year? Is it a trend all of a sudden?
>>108171651If it gets a lower half that is both a keyboard and a game controller then I'm sold
>>108171651It's not a phone, and there's been threads about it every other day for the last 6 months.
>>108178614there's increasing demand for a smartphone with a keyboard, and there's currently no supply.
>>108171717you could get one made in shenzhen from parts and have android on it. shanzhai phones are basically this in small runs.
>225 grammesMiss me with that bullshit. I have a camera that's lighter than this.
>>108176239does your desktop fit in your pocket you drooling retard?
>>108183080>durr it's small so none of the other benefits or drawbacks apply
>>108175856>eSIMaint no way diddy blud jus revealed his unc status
>>108171651>jeet handsIn to the toilet it goes.
>>108171651I wish someone would make one of these and just make it GOODJust make it WORK and not be chinesium or jeetium
>>108171717You only need a modem to spam AT commands at, it is old ass technology.
Cybiko 2026
>>108172986bloody benchud
>>108186384they should bring this thing back
>>108171651Aren't we just re-inventing a phone at this point?
>>108187763Wasn't that a pretty big innovation the last time it happened almost 20 years ago?
>>108173363Maid by jeets ahahahhaahaa
>>108175647>so who'd they steal the form factor from? Which other company is making something like this already?THIS
>>108171651so do they just attach with like magnets or
>>108171651the catch is that it wont run your banking app or anything to do with payment like uber, parking or a government tax app. while i lament the state of android, even on graphene i barely use my phone outside for anything other than music or calls. I go out to do other stuff than computing and relying on a halfassed computer while going out will only result in fully being able to appreciate either one.
>>108184167Ah yeah surrendering freedom makes you hip and young. Tie your IM account to this random hardware more. This isn't Reddit fag.
>>108189692>ycombinator is over 20 years oldholy cow.
>>108191234>will only result in fully being able to appreciate either one.will result in _not_ fully being able to appreciate either one, sorry
>>108189716a maam thread, if you will
Oh for fuck's sake didn't Librem 5 teach people anything? >If you're going to make a Linux phone it needs...>Recent, open hardware that is high performance for the value >The ability to actually do phone things on it that are not contingent on the handful of built in programs - it needs to be able to run Android apps at very least, and preferably the 'important' ones like banking.Its all well and good to just be a handheld linux toy and that's fine, there are plenty of those over the years but if you want to make something people could carry as a daily driver, you need to be able to do 'phone things' which means both hardware support AND the ability to run Android apps at a high rate of success. Until you can do that, don't even try to sell it as anything but a Linux pocket retro fuckery computer or whatever the hell, but not a 'phone' - you're just going to waste time.
>>108172915ohnevermind
>>108191304>it needs to be able to run Android apps at very least, and preferably the 'important' ones like banking.This is the phone equivalent of the "anti-cheat" bitching gammers do. Those apps will never run because the authors *intentionally* make them incompatible with open platforms. If you actually want to get away from that kind of thing you'll figure out how to do banking without Android.
>>108191323Many of the 'anticheats' are now running on Linux for gaming if the devs like do one "press the make it work on Linux button" - there was a whole shitshow about how Tim Sweeney whined about Gaben being mean pointing this out about EasyAntiCheat to stop Tim from being a whiny bitch. Anyway, if it was only the most obtuse and obnoxious security level fuck you apps that didn't work, I would be fine with that. However its not like they're able to run seamlessly with all the Android apps (even FOSS stuff like Fdroid etc) who aren't as obnoxious as some of the banking ones. If they said they had some sort of virtualizer or emulator or whatever that made sure that you could run most Android apps that would be one thing, but they don't have that, they're going to make their own speshul sauce "linux phone" UI shit and say that you should be happy with that just like every other project that makes one of these, which for the most part end up poorly supported a year or two down the line - especially those that claimed they were super haxor Linux devices or the only phone you needed or whatever
>>108171651>What's the catch?this is the dev team.
>>108187763The last time the phone was reinvented it completely changed society, so it seems like a good idea to me
>>108175647Closest I can think of it clicks who might still be iphone exclusive for all I know and the fairberry diy project from a couple years ago.
>>108171651Give me this on a phone and i bought
>>108194159Did you support the kickstarter then?
>>108173363i'm even less convinced of you being an actual maid than I am of you being a dragon. Go programming on a desk, a table or even a couch or go cleaning. Your house is a mess everywhere but the most surface level surfaces and all your programs are bound to resemble the absolute scatterbrain you are. If you really do larp as a maid irl (i doubt it) give in to the character fully and leave the programming to another character or alter ego to play at other times. Only focus and discipline can bring you the calm of mind you seek from whatever combined fetish and autistic focus you've thrown yourself into.
>>108171651I want one, but I'm confused by the sheer amount of models + I don't want to wait till September.
A pocket portable GNU Linux (terminal and all) with physical qwerty keyboard does make my dick hard indeed. Would. But using it as a phone? The problem is I need to use normie cancer like WhatsApp and banking apps so I would have a separate phone for that, but still, would carry both. A proper GNU Linux terminal (not cucked phone environments or SSH) you can use while standing up with a *physical keyboard* is something I really want.But between India and Kickstarter, it's very iffy for this to succeed. If there already something like this out there (without going all the way to those old Nokias)?>>108183022Weight is the least of my concerns. Fitting in a pocket is the biggest requirement, because otherwise just use a laptop.
>>108171651>only comes in variants of 2 and 4gb ramdoa
