FriendlyARM Mini2440

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I’m sure a lot of people will appreciate this

http://www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440

It’s almost like a DIY smartphone-minus-phone for $110, you can buy the Wifi and camera module for it separately and they are pretty much plug-and-play

It’d be so easy to hook a GSM module up to this, it even has a mic on board, you can pretty much buy the eval board for the Telit modules and connect less than a dozen wires and it becomes a DIY smartphone

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Interesting idea. Try also friendlyarm.us Hook up a Sparkfun GPS as well.

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Definitely, I’m leaning towards the LS20031 since it runs on 3.3V and has software controlled power management

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I have seen some pictures of Android on the Mini but nothing in person and no indication it is really running bullet proof. The best work at the moment seems to be Angstrom with Qt/E based on BusError’s Linux work at bliterness.blogspot.com