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Smartphone without a battery (2022)

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97 points MYEUHD | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 07:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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wiseowise ◴[12 Dec 25 12:51 UTC] No.46243652[source]▶
It is criminal that supercomputers in our pockets have expiration dates.

Even cheapest phone these days is hundreds times more powerful than PS2, has better camera on par or better with most feature phones back in the days and cellular/wifi. They can be used for detection, automation or just plain fun/gaming.

But no, you can't install Linux to overcome bloated, insecure abandonware (old Androids, iOS). Built-in, hot pillow of a battery that is pain in the ass to remove and even then it can't work without it.

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1. yownie ◴[17 Dec 25 19:38 UTC] No.46304448[source]▶
I completely agree, the excuse for non-open hardware always used to be that the sim/cellular modem needed to be a blackbox/binary blob.

I'm wondering now with the prevelance of wifi calling/eSim/mobile data plans if that's even the case anymore.

we have several phones that have even BEEN open-source hw afaik, like Librem and pinephone.