Tired of Apple's rules? Build your own touchscreen handheld
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#2It might not be as interesting as building your own, but the Palm Pre gives you root access and Palm is very supportive of third party app stores. So if all your after is a more open touchscreen device you aren't forced to build your own.
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#32.5K of RAM? Sign me up for 2000!
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#4They lost me at "resistive touch screen."
Does anyone have a good source for a similar device with a larger screen and capacitive touch?
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#5They lost me at "resistive touch screen." Does anyone have a good source for a similar device with a larger screen and capacitive touch?
That's the beauty of open-source hardware :)
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#6Nexus S? Nexus One? Nokia N900? OpenMoko FreeRunner? OpenPandora?
There are more than a few more powerful alternatives to an iPhone that are open source and ready to hack. Most of them can even make phone calls.
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#7WiFi?
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#82.5K of RAM? Sign me up for 2000!
I guess you never dealt with microcontrollers, right?
The company is about popular DIY electronics kits, I think it's a marvelous project if you consider that, but nothing close of an iPhone, if that's what people want they should play with an ARM board.
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#9Guys, come on. The bit about being a replacement for the iPhone was a joke. It's a toy. It's meant for nerding around with. It's not a production device. You probably shouldn't be depending on it to actually work more than 10% of the time.
It's a model airplane. It flies, it's kindof neat, but it's pretty much totally pointless beyond being tons of fun.
Re: Tired of Apple's rules? Build your own touchscreen handheld
#10Guys, come on . The bit about being a replacement for the iPhone was a joke. It's a toy. It's meant for nerding around with. It's not a production device. You probably shouldn't be depending on it to actually work more than 10% of the time. It's a model airplane. It flies, it's kindof neat, but it's pretty much totally pointless beyond being tons of fun.
"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."
-- pg