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2013-05-29
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Nope. So you should never start building something?
Most of those things can be done buy many people. But very few companies are willing to sell you a good cpu if you don't buy large enough.
And how much longer is the wait for the Vivaldi?
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2013-05-30
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2013-05-30
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On desktop pc's and to a lesser extent it is possible to buy all the parts, body,cpu, motherboard etc end then build your own device and then put on OS on it of your own choosing (within certain limits).
Is something like that not possible for mobile devices?
And what if you base it on a x86 cpu instead of a ARM?
I am not saying it is easy or even possible. Just want to know. Maybe use soemthing like a Raspberry pi type device?
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2013-05-30
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2013-05-30
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On desktop pc's and to a lesser extent it is possible to buy all the parts, body,cpu, motherboard etc end then build your own device and then put on OS on it of your own choosing (within certain limits).
Is something like that not possible for mobile devices?
And what if you base it on a x86 cpu instead of a ARM?
I am not saying it is easy or even possible. Just want to know. Maybe use soemthing like a Raspberry pi type device?
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2013-05-31
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2013-06-06
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2013-06-09
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Haven't really read the whole thread (sorry 'bout that, but I've been forum whoring all day! I swear this is the last one...), but I thought I'd throw in against all the naysayers. Look at the Amiga community. There are seriously people in that community that make all kinds of random hardware bits. Several make Playstation 1/2 controller adapters that plug into the Amiga. There is a single guy who runs Individual Computers that makes everything from CPU 'accelerator' boards to 'flicker fixers' (anyone who knows anything about the Amiga and even some older computers knows that they use old display technology that isn't exactly friendly with most modern screens).
And yes, there are even the makers of the Minimig, which is an FPGA based Amiga 500. So they would be a good group to look at when seeing what some people can accomplish as far as providing hardware or contacts of people to get a hold of for manufacturing actual product.
In fact, a couple of guys have recreated the PCB for the Amiga 1000 and have a parts list so you can build a replacement motherboard!
If there were indeed a kickstarter, money talks as the saying goes.
My only thing at this point really is; Why Maemo? To me the most awesome thing about it was that it was Debian based, and worked well on a small touch screen. What we need is Hildon ported to GTK3, and... oh wait, that's practically Gnome-Shell! It was inspired by Maemo after all. Let's just get a tablet device that runs Gnome-Shell, improve the few things it's lacking (get a proper gtk port of Maliit) and whip up a Debian Wheezy based setup. Though I think we'd want the base, but Gnome 3.8 (there are a lot of improvements since 3.4, which is what Wheezy has).
Then just polish up Debian (really easy to do) get GTK3 to be more touch friendly (multitouch, etc) and we'd be set. Then we'd have a real competitor to Ubuntu, which I hate
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2013-06-11
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So would it be possible with a x86 based chip?
Something like the Mbook
or Viliv N5?
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Most of those things can be done buy many people. But very few companies are willing to sell you a good cpu if you don't buy large enough.
And how much longer is the wait for the Vivaldi?
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