It's always the same old raspberry pi glued to a battery, a screen and an lte module.<p>Please, come back when the software is half decent. First generation of iphone level of smoothness and intuitiveness should be the bar. Hell, even an old fashioned blackberry experience would be good enough
Has the "Waveshare SIM7600" and the raspberry pi bootloader/gpu have open source firmware?<p>I didn't think there were any open source baseband modems that did 4g, I know there were some software defined radio projects but they seemed of limited utility.<p>I know in the past there were some attempts to make rpi firmware open source but some of components would not activate or had reduced functionality, so I wonder if that is no longer a problem.
Also after the news at Hackaday, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835260" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835260</a><p>--<p>Aside: Hackster.io has an RSS feed, even though it is not made evident. Always check the page source, or try the typical RSS URL forms.
I have no problem with this particular project, but the optics make for a good joke about the usability of proprietary vs. free software (a bit like Top Gear's DIY car <a href="https://youtu.be/PCSNCs7bwCw" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/PCSNCs7bwCw</a>).