This project takes you through building a functional cellphone using off-the-shelf parts,

Any thoughts on building your own phone?

Recently I had the idea of building my own phone with a Raspberry Pi. I started searching and I found this article where someone had already done this. Unfortunately this article is from 2014 and I can’t find a newer article with a functional phone with SIM card. At some point this guy says he’s running Raspbian. Are there mobile desktops for Debian? Mobian doesn’t look very real.I don’t want Android although Lineage/etc might be acceptable… (Although now I’m thinking of putting Droidian on an old phone…)

Anyway does anybody have any info, thoughts, or advice on this? Am I a total idiot for wanting to attempt this?

  • haxboar [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    FYI, I have the FLX1s, and I really like it. It’s quite buggy, and I wouldn’t give it to a “normie”, but I think it has a lot of potential. That being said, their support hasn’t been great.

    I haven’t heard of the Comet, but that looks super cool, thanks for the heads up