09-12-2021, 11:17 PM
(09-10-2021, 02:49 PM)4hilton@gmail.com Wrote: I have been inspired to make my own phone and really like my Pinephone.
As I start on this journey I am looking for some friendly guidance. I would really like to chat with some of the folks in the Pine64 hardware team so that I can learn a bit more and even see how viable my idea is or if there is any synergy between out projects.
Right now I am looking for a manufacturer to make me an android phone with hardware similar to the Pinephone in many ways so I thought that this community would be a great place to start.
I would be very appreciative to chat with anyone with manufacturing experience making phones especially with a community based model.
first, i do not represent pine organization at all. i'm just pinephone user (and buyer).
i voted no. sound like you want individually crafted phone. in today's world, it's not practically impossible. there is design, physical design, circuit board, chips and components. and it needs some kind of assembly line, e.g. mass production. planning a design and building a assembly line for one product sounds like, design and assembly cost more than phone components.
android o.s. wonders me. android is ... sort of available to pinephone, but because users are more interested getting away from goodroid (and ios), i don't think that android will be highly maintained. is it you want more like android partitioning system with fastboot and bootloader, shortly, android bootloader is too controlled. i actually like about pinephones bootloader, it gives more user's control, not their control.
however, if diffenrences are minor, i think it's possible to have some variations. if variations fit to existing product, then it might be feasable some way.
googoo corporation did have modular phone plan in the past. it seems that, it was not succesful and google dumped it.
i think you probably should say roughly what you want, we and others can give better answers.
you probably see this one already:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone#P...ifications
