If you fancy building your very own smartphone using the Raspberry Pi mini PC, David Hunt has created a working smartphone using the popular $35 Raspberry Pi mini computer together with a few other components.
The smartphone based on the Raspberry Pi development board is equipped with a full touchscreen display thanks to the addition of an Adafruit PiTFT touchscreen, check out the video after the jump to learn more and see it in action.
The PiPhone as it is adeptly named is also equipped with a SIM900 GSM/GPRS module and powered by a DC-DC conveyer and a Lithium Polymer battery. For more information on the new PiPhone project jump over to the David Hunt website for details. The complete PiPhone cost less than $200 to make from scratch and is definitely a very unique phone to carry around. For more details on Raspberry Pi displays and HATS jump over to our essential guide.
Source: Raspberry Pi : Liliputing
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