[Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 28.12.2021 um 20:40 schrieb Martin <debacle at debian.org>:
> 
> On 2021-12-28 19:35, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
>> That’s a pity. In particular with the recent Pi Zero 2 design that could’ve
>> been a pretty sweet alternative feature phone.
> 
> My main problem with the ZP was the extremely small display.
> I'm just too old to be able to read it without magnifying glass.
> Apart from that it was a very cool phone!

Indeed, it was a nice and good idea for its time.

But to be curious: what would you do with a feature phone nowadays?
If there is a browser it is crap. Games? Banking? Navigation? Messenger?
My mother-in-law has one, just in case she must do a phone call.
There is one more: receiving SMS for banking or 2-factor authentication.

Next question: are there enough interested developers for writing free software?

And one more thing to consider is the power demand of a non-phone-processor.
Especially the ∏02 needs much more energy or must be heavily underclocked
(if that is possible at all).

Even the N900 upstream kernel is wrestling with power management of the
good old omap3.

The key feature of a featurephone over a smartphone is that it can
run 100 hours or more in standby but wake up immediately. And all that
coming in a small and lightweight case with big buttons and display.

This combination of requirements is very difficult to achieve with
off-the-shelf components.