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1386 points BogdanTheGeek | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 17:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SXX ◴[15 Sep 25 15:17 UTC] No.45250676[source]▶
Talking of cheap and powerful devices one can also look at Chinese UZ801 4G LTE (Qualcomm MSM8916) dongles. They cost like only $4-5 and pack quite impressive HW: 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM, actual 4G modem sometimes with 2 sim switching support. Since it's actually old Android SOC there is even GPU and GPS in there. And a lot of work was already done on supporting them:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Zhihe_series_LTE_dongles_...

https://github.com/OpenStick/OpenStick

So yeah if you looking for hardware platform for weird homelab projects that's can be it.

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e145bc455f1 ◴[15 Sep 25 16:17 UTC] No.45251521[source]▶
Where do i get a MSM8916 board for commercial usage at low volumes(1k)?
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dolmen ◴[15 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45252189[source]▶
What about disassembling 1k dongles?
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cjaackie ◴[15 Sep 25 17:31 UTC] No.45252535[source]▶
underrated comment, probably the way to go with an older chip and under 1k volumes.
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Rzor ◴[15 Sep 25 18:18 UTC] No.45253142[source]▶
And not even that hard to find: "alibaba MSM8916 LTE" on Google and lo and behold: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/TIANJIE-Qualcomm-MSM8...

$5.92 each for 500-2999 orders. What a time to be alive.

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greenavocado ◴[15 Sep 25 19:41 UTC] No.45254058{3}[source]▶
How much work is it to rip one of these open and reprogram?
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1. WorldPeas ◴[15 Sep 25 20:28 UTC] No.45254534{4}[source]▶
probably 2 screws at most or some glue/snaps, then put a jtag brush over the contacts, do some sort of unit test and you have a unit. Could take a few hours with a motorized screwdriver and a simple specialized CLI program for programming/testing