04-05-2021, 11:13 AM
This thread is a total disaster. In sixteen pages, all we've seen is a bunch of people - myself included, I suppose - coming in to drop their wildly differing and rather inflated expectations for what this device should look like, and almost always with an "I'm not interested in this at all if it doesn't include these things" note tacked on. From reading all of these, it kind of seems like no conceivable device could possibly cover the majority of everyone's needs at any price point, let alone an affordable one.
I'm going to take a step back from my previous post concerning SDR and experimental radio, since there's clearly not a huge amount of interest in that here, or at least not enough to make the cost of the required hardware and design complexity worth spending. At this point, what we really need is any kind of coherent direction at all. In short, what IS the PineCom? Some people want it to be a smartphone, some people want it to be a tablet, and many others want it to be their own very specific concept for a new type of mobile device, which doesn't match up with anyone else's vision for it.
All we know from the outset of the thread is that this is supposed to be something like a PinePhone but with a LoRa transceiver instead of a cellular modem. It remains unclear to me what the utility of this would actually be, and from reading the posts here, it seems like most people don't have a clearer picture of that than I do.
Rather than continue to deliberate over how many cameras this thing needs and what size the screen should be, I propose that we try to agree on what the intended purpose of the PineCom actually is in the first place. We are absolutely, definitely going to need to do that if this project is going to go anywhere.
I'm going to take a step back from my previous post concerning SDR and experimental radio, since there's clearly not a huge amount of interest in that here, or at least not enough to make the cost of the required hardware and design complexity worth spending. At this point, what we really need is any kind of coherent direction at all. In short, what IS the PineCom? Some people want it to be a smartphone, some people want it to be a tablet, and many others want it to be their own very specific concept for a new type of mobile device, which doesn't match up with anyone else's vision for it.
All we know from the outset of the thread is that this is supposed to be something like a PinePhone but with a LoRa transceiver instead of a cellular modem. It remains unclear to me what the utility of this would actually be, and from reading the posts here, it seems like most people don't have a clearer picture of that than I do.
Rather than continue to deliberate over how many cameras this thing needs and what size the screen should be, I propose that we try to agree on what the intended purpose of the PineCom actually is in the first place. We are absolutely, definitely going to need to do that if this project is going to go anywhere.