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shoaibmerchant

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    Comment #46816663

    The LTE modem will be available on the Pledge Manager. We are currently testing with Quectel EM05, works really well - calling, messaging, data all have been tested. PlaMo dialer a…

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    Comment #46816493

    Creator here, There are a bunch of them added to the Kickstarter page, check them out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-com... We are updating them on Kicks…

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    Comment #46814164

    Creator here, For the IMX8MP - The pinephone was 1.2 GHz, this is 1.8 GHz on all four cores. As far as geekbench goes it hits between the Pi 3 and Pi 4, faster EMMC and LPDDR4 give…

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    Comment #46814013

    Creator here We are currently testing with LTE modem (Quectel EM05). We are yet to test with 5G Modems but similar sized 3042 (M.2) are available albeit expensive.

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    Comment #46813959

    No absolutely not, everything is uncomplicated intentionally. Plus it is open hardware.

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    Comment #46809190

    Creator here, We haven't because it isn't primarily a phone. But we will eventually. But the folks at PlaMo are testing their dialer app and it works fine.

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    Comment #46809131

    Creator here. I can completely understand the skepticism, any startup today releasing something and promising to support will be taken with a grain of salt. I cannot guarantee that…

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    Comment #46808986

    Creator here, thanks for highlighting this. We are currently following the NXP IMX downstream kernel, that is why you can check the 'imx-' prefix on our branch, their releases foll…

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    Comment #42637668

    Founder here, that would be me. I have spent countless hours on this :D

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    Comment #42637646

    Founder here, the reason to not put spring contacts on extensions is to make it easy for anyone to make extensions by just exposing solder contacts or hand soldering small discs. B…

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    Comment #42637541

    Founder here, thank you for this note we will build a jig to test this out and share results on our docs. One of the things we have done to reduce wear over time is that the spring…

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    Comment #42637388

    Disclaimer: Founder here M5 is based on ESP32 so it is microcontroller based so you are limited to things a MCU can do. But yea I love the M5 platform, funnily I am here at CES and…