Amazing work. I really do miss the OG Motorola Droids with the slide keyboard. Being able to ssh into a server with a nearly proper keyboard seems ahead of today.
This is cool, very much the hacker ethos. But I didn't see any evidence that it can make a phone call though?
It's greatest quality seems to me that the whole screen looks accessible with one hand. I own an iphone 12 mini. Not sure what to replace it with when it dies.
Also very impressive (and delivered with great humor)
!!Con 2015 - Kevin Lynagh: I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!)
Cool.
I suggest watching this on 2x playback speed.
this vocal fry is peak genz rizz
It was interesting but at the end of the day the phone he created is not compelling in any way to me. He says "give us something other than a rectangle" multiple times (to phone makers) but the phone he cannibalized is a zFlip 5 which was already not (just) a rectangle. Also, I actually like my rectangle phone.
I fully expected this to be some kind of fully custom phone but it's just a nerfed android phone. No knock on what he accomplished, it's impressive as hell, but "built my own phone", eh...
It's cool but past making it for this video and maybe carrying it for a month or two I predict this is destined for a junk drawer.
What does the “rn” in the title mean?
I’ve had this same idea, down to the functionality and even using a Samsung FlipZ (I believe it’s possible FlipZ phones support Linux) foldable chip to achieve it!
I was just revisitng the idea yesterday but building a foldable clamshell Gameboy SP like case instead.
IMO you only really need a 4-inch square screen. Now I know it’s possible. I would even take a 4-inch screen device without a keyboard or cellular modem.
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0:30: An AI-generated clip that appears to show people in Nazi prisoner uniforms.
What?
The title is clickbait, mods please fix it.
"I repackaged a broken zFlip 5 into a custom enclosure with a blackberry keyboard"
Still pretty cool though.