Hello, It has been quiet on this list, but I recently became aware of another phone- like project when perusing a popular maker/gadget retailer's site:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/unphone It appears to be an ESP32-based (XTensa LX7) gadget that emphasises LoRa-based communication for Internet of Things applications, but it has a touchscreen alongside the various sensors one might expect from an IoT product. Since the ESP32 also has WiFi and Bluetooth, it is perhaps more like a conventional tablet in terms of connectivity than a phone, and there seems to be an acknowledgement that it "isn’t a phone alternative", making the naming a bit counterintuitive. Still, it intentionally looks a bit like a phone. What is a bit more interesting about this effort, compared to numerous others over the years, is that it is connected to a university course and has its own Web site and text book: https://unphone.net/ https://iot.unphone.net/ It does make me wonder what could be done if they didn't use a microcontroller, even one with 8MB of RAM, and moved up to something more powerful, maybe even adding support for conventional mobile telephony. But the fact that it is an open hardware/software product that will presumably be sold at some point by an actual producer of gadgetry makes it worth a mention, I think. Paul _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
