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Hi All
Longtime SE fan so have been browsing ESATO for quite some time but never posted.
I had a thought and wanted to pitch the idea to people who know about phones.
How difficult is it to design and make a phone?
A linux based device with functionality similar to the iphone, a PDA or even better a basic PC. Some thing like a Star Trek TRi-corder- an open source scalable tool that the end user can customise to what ever he/she requires.
After seeing the CECT ifone, I think its do-able what do you think??
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Posted: 2007-12-13 20:59:48
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I think it's all good buy your only way of doing it is to steal bits from other phones, so the re-sale of "your" phone can't happen!
but I love the idea of having a phone I designed!
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Posted: 2007-12-13 21:51:22
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^^^ you'd just build a t66i pink
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Posted: 2007-12-13 22:50:40
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^^ wrong-o... I'd have a pink blackberry mixed with the looks of a vertu... but a silly keypad like the serene...
but it'd be pink all right.
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Posted: 2007-12-13 23:30:52
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Check this out! choose the phone you like, buy it, and put your own brand to it
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Posted: 2007-12-14 08:58:18
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Thats not really designing the phone though...
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Posted: 2007-12-14 11:55:16
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Very, very difficult I should imagine! Although...
Time for one of Uncle Cyco's boring nostalgia trips: Anybody remember the Acorn Electron? It's an 80's home computer but anyway, it basically had only four types of microchip in it: A CPU, memory chips, a ROM chip to store the OS and the BASIC programming language and a chip called a ULA (uncommitted logic array) which did everything else such as sound and display, input / output etc.
The point is, a ULA can be modified at the manufacturing stage to do pretty much whatever you want so in theory you'd only need the same four basic (but obviously much more modern and powerful) chips in a mobile phone to do some pretty complex stuff. Then there's the signal transmitting and receiving side of things...
So, keeping it very simple you need a microelectronics engineer for the hardware, a programmer for the software, a poncey arty-farty gimp for the design and a materials scientist for the housing. And lots of money.
Or you could rob the guts out of an Acorn Electron and make one of these...
HeHe! Ok, seriously, I think that designing a phone from the ground up is obviously a mammoth task that requires the cooperation of a lot of very skilled people, hence why truly new phones take so long to reach the shelves. But as others have said, taking an existing set of hardware and designing a case for it is quite feasible
[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-12-14 12:26 ]
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Posted: 2007-12-14 13:12:30
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