schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1135file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mllinuxphones@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1135external-linkmikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mllinuxphones@lemmy.ml
minus-squareMangoPenguinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoIt’s extremely difficult since every phone SOC has its own closed proprietary blob of drivers that’s required to make use of it.
minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoDoesn’t the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?
minus-squareMangoPenguinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoThey have some blobs for wifi/ble, but the difference is you can freely use them, whereas obtaining the blobs for most phone SOCs is hard.
It’s extremely difficult since every phone SOC has its own closed proprietary blob of drivers that’s required to make use of it.
Doesn’t the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?
They have some blobs for wifi/ble, but the difference is you can freely use them, whereas obtaining the blobs for most phone SOCs is hard.