Still pretty cool though.
I did this a few years ago and got pretty far with a prototype. My idea was to get it to the point of being useful enough to call, text and allow me to leave my iPhone behind when I’m out doing stuff. Then I moved to Asia and we use LINE extensively for everything and there’s no (legit) way to use their APIs.
If it was sliding case it would be perfect, but as it's stands the phone doesn't fit in my pocket if I use it.
I remember being disappointed to see Android go the cute cuddly green robot route instead of the sick red droid look but overall it was definitely more palatable for the masses.
Also phone didn't work in basic phone mode. These things are getting more useless without earbuds
Definitely the way to go.
I have no doubt that this phone will not be perfect. With all the things sticking out it will catch on stuff, and it will be awkward to hold up to your head to talk, etc. But who cares? He made it himself, and will have a lot of attachment to it if only for that fact.
And I agree with his main point: phones used to be interesting. We all stroke our plain black slabs like monkeys before the Monolith these days, and it's sad.
!!Con 2015 - Kevin Lynagh: I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!)
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.
but, i did get me a tiny 6 key and a knob keyboard i can bring around with my phone, and it gets 95% of what id otherwise use my keyboard for
I suggest watching this on 2x playback speed.
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?
The screen has some kind of streaking/ghosting effect that's so bad it would be instant wareanty in any other phone, exept it's not the physical screen but something with how it's being driven. It's worse an dimmer brighness leves, and it's worse with some kinds of images / screen contents.
The camera is simply garbage all around, pick any metric. Simple fucus, low light, motion, macro or fake macro by zoom, even simple outdoor daylight are barely ok compared to any other junk phone.
Reception sucks. All the receptions, lte, wifi, bt.
The open/close mechanism is the least convenient of any moving part I've ever used, the way there is no secure way to hold it to start the motion, then the loss of control during over-center snap. The laptop orientation with a camera bump so it wobbles on a table.
The cpu is slower than my pixel 4.
There is some stupidness with either the charging circuit or boot manager that if you ever simply allow the battery to die all the way, it can't start charging again and it's bricked unless you crack it open to access the cell itself.
All utter dogshit.
It has some checkboxes ticked like heaphone jack, removable sdcard, and of course the keyboard, but the thing sucks so bad to actually use that they don't matter.
I'm probably forgetting yet more things because even though I paid $700 or whatever it was, then waited 2 or 3 years for it to ship, and even though my pixel 4a5g died right before it arrived so I actually needed it, I still only used it for a few weeks and spent another 1300 importing an xperia they don't sell or support in the US. (to get a current flagship phone that actually has a headphone jack and removable sd and dual sim, and is at least rootable and you can modify the system apps if not run Lineage)
Oh yeah it's supposed to be an "xda phone" even with xda logo on the back, natively hackable... turns out no matter what os you want to run on it they all actually still have to use the same closed kernel. So you get to larp os control while still running under a kernel you can't replace.
That said, he works at Midjourney.. so it's a weird blind spot, if it's a blind spot.
Those are horizontal stripes, not vertical.
Horizontal Stripes were common in US-Prisons until the early 20th Century [1]. While vertical Stripes were common in Nazi-Camps. It's a very distinct difference, and I would think the source-material has more data about the horizontal than the vertical stripes. So it's fair to ask which specific prompt they had to get pictures from Nazi-labour-camps.