Comment by 🚀 stack

I'd dump my 'smart' phone in a second if there was a reasonable dumb option.

I used to have a flip phone. It never crashed, and the battery lasted a week. Towards the end I bought 10 of them on EBay for $10, and as they broke, I'd just grab the next one out of the box. The rest of my family had 3 smart phones, and in total paid less for service than my one flip phone, and I eventually gave up and got a smart phone too. Hate every minute of it.

On a modern phone network, ideally I'd have a dumb phone with a mobile WiFi hotspot feature, and use other devices chosen by me to connect to the Internet.

Jul 13 · 5 months ago

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hey!

i just found https://github.com/jgauchia/IceNav-v3

I truly think that this project is possible, I'll try to work on the software (for the matrix client) and then get it to a suitable microcontroller

@fab i had for this reason used kaios, but i would not recommend it.

Not having whatsapp or a good map is kind of a bummer.

if i were to buy another dumbphone it'd be the cat s22, but i rather make my own.

i found another treasure:

https://forum.lvgl.io/t/open-source-example-of-lvgl-on-square-screen/17753/11

Original Post

Dumphone - w/MCU hello. I wanted to ask if anyone was interested in building their own dumbphone...? And thought maybe this is a good place to ask, and maybe we could a community around that. I myself would focus only on these things: - Calling - Texting - Music And probably the hardest: - Navigation I don't think linux or anything is needed for that, and would only make it more complicated, just a low end MCU. Maybe that could make it better in other qualities like battery and...