Paxo: A DIY Phone

I read a lot of negative/pesimistic comments, but just to put things in perspective, this phone was developped by a middle/high school guy when he was 13~16 years old… come on guys…

I tried to find some technical details, but there is nothing on the tutorials page. The press page links to a few articles in French, but all I found was that there is that there is no 4G, and &quot;Circuit artisinal fonctionnel&quot; on a diagram.<p>It would be great to know how it compares with other DIY phone projects like ZeroPhone.

The way it looks reminds me of the Handspring Visor[1] for some reason (with less buttons).<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handspring,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handspring,_Inc</a>.

With all respect to the younger generation, this is project is oversold compared to previous similar projects.<p>BTW, which OSHW project is advanced enough to deserve more contributions ?<p>Back to paxo one, According to<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paxo-phone&#x2F;paxo-electronic">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paxo-phone&#x2F;paxo-electronic</a><p>It is integration of SIM800L modem with ESP32<p>Software side, the main app (aka OS):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paxo-phone&#x2F;PaxOS-9">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paxo-phone&#x2F;PaxOS-9</a>

A rather unfortunate choice of name!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paxo.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paxo.co.uk&#x2F;</a>

Oh man. Again one of those projects where someone glues together an Arduino (ESP, Raspberry,...), a modem module and a battery. I&#x27;m not sure where this is &quot;educational&quot; (except for the creators, of course).<p>I&#x27;ve been using hacky phones all my life (N900, N9, Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch, Pinephone, Librem5) and I really really really just want people to finally concentrate their efforts and build a (non-android) open-source phone (HW + ecosystem) that&#x27;s actually <i>usable</i>.<p>Sorry for this non-constructive post, but this is a topic that bothers me quite a lot.