@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agomikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkmikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months 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-square@ooternesslinkEnglish5•2 months agoDoesn’t the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months 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.