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Any thoughts on building your own phone?

Recently I had the idea of building my own phone with a Raspberry Pi. I started searching and I found this article where someone had already done this. Unfortunately this article is from 2014 and I can't find a newer article with a functional phone with SIM card. At some point this guy says he's running Raspbian. Are there mobile desktops for Debian? Mobian doesn't look very real.I don't want Android although Lineage/etc might be acceptable... (Although now I'm thinking of putting Droidian on an old phone...)

Anyway does anybody have any info, thoughts, or advice on this? Am I a total idiot for wanting to attempt this?

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

aren't those called tablets? lol

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Where do I get one thats the size if a phone?

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago
[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago
[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

it's smaller than than both the samsung galaxy z fold7 or huawei mate xt ultimate opened up and the same size as the xiaomi 17 ultra and samsung galaxy s25/26 ultra

this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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