Amazing work. I really do miss the OG Motorola Droids with the slide keyboard. Being able to ssh into a server with a nearly proper keyboard seems ahead of today.
The OG Droid remains one of my favorite devices I’ve ever owned - it’s the closest I’ve ever felt to being in the future, and the whole vibe was intensely cyberpunk.
It's greatest quality seems to me that the whole screen looks accessible with one hand. I own an iphone 12 mini. Not sure what to replace it with when it dies.
I’ve had this same idea, down to the functionality and even using a Samsung FlipZ (I believe it’s possible FlipZ phones support Linux) foldable chip to achieve it!
I was just revisitng the idea yesterday but building a foldable clamshell Gameboy SP like case instead.
IMO you only really need a 4-inch square screen. Now I know it’s possible. I would even take a 4-inch screen device without a keyboard or cellular modem.
It was interesting but at the end of the day the phone he created is not compelling in any way to me. He says "give us something other than a rectangle" multiple times (to phone makers) but the phone he cannibalized is a zFlip 5 which was already not (just) a rectangle. Also, I actually like my rectangle phone.
I fully expected this to be some kind of fully custom phone but it's just a nerfed android phone. No knock on what he accomplished, it's impressive as hell, but "built my own phone", eh...
It's cool but past making it for this video and maybe carrying it for a month or two I predict this is destined for a junk drawer.
The vertical strikes are pretty distinct. Either way you can't say "definitely". The AI probably wasn't even prompted in this way; without any specific investigation, and just because I exist in the symbolic world, I would guess that there is proximity between the embeddings for "factory worker" and "camp prisoner". That is the common rhetoric, isn't it?
Because factory workers don't wear uniforms that look like that, ever since they picked up a bad association circa 1945. Google it - you won't find any photos of factory workers dressed like that.
I think the clip is possibly (and hopefully unintentionally) problematic, but I wouldn't go so far as to say Nazi. If you google "Paddington prison" you'll see a similar striped outfit. So prison labor.. still not awesome, but not necessarily Nazi. And, well, maybe relevant to mass electronic goods manufacturing in certain countries.
That said, he works at Midjourney.. so it's a weird blind spot, if it's a blind spot.
"I repackaged a broken zFlip 5 into a custom enclosure with a blackberry keyboard"
Still pretty cool though.
This is cool, very much the hacker ethos. But I didn't see any evidence that it can make a phone call though?
Amazing work. I really do miss the OG Motorola Droids with the slide keyboard. Being able to ssh into a server with a nearly proper keyboard seems ahead of today.
You can add a physical keyboard to an iPhone [0]
[0] https://www.clicks.tech
The OG Droid remains one of my favorite devices I’ve ever owned - it’s the closest I’ve ever felt to being in the future, and the whole vibe was intensely cyberpunk.
And what do you use these days?
Nothing half as interesting - the same glass coated soap bar as everyone else.
It's greatest quality seems to me that the whole screen looks accessible with one hand. I own an iphone 12 mini. Not sure what to replace it with when it dies.
I have an iPhone 13 mini to sell you :o)
Zenfone 10 is pretty cool if you chase the form factor
Zenfone 10 also isn't available anymore and its software support will end long before the iPhone's, if it hasn't already.
I’ve had this same idea, down to the functionality and even using a Samsung FlipZ (I believe it’s possible FlipZ phones support Linux) foldable chip to achieve it!
I was just revisitng the idea yesterday but building a foldable clamshell Gameboy SP like case instead.
IMO you only really need a 4-inch square screen. Now I know it’s possible. I would even take a 4-inch screen device without a keyboard or cellular modem.
Cool.
I suggest watching this on 2x playback speed.
It was interesting but at the end of the day the phone he created is not compelling in any way to me. He says "give us something other than a rectangle" multiple times (to phone makers) but the phone he cannibalized is a zFlip 5 which was already not (just) a rectangle. Also, I actually like my rectangle phone.
I fully expected this to be some kind of fully custom phone but it's just a nerfed android phone. No knock on what he accomplished, it's impressive as hell, but "built my own phone", eh...
It's cool but past making it for this video and maybe carrying it for a month or two I predict this is destined for a junk drawer.
0:30: An AI-generated clip that appears to show people in Nazi prisoner uniforms.
What?
They googled or generated a video with "sad workers making phones"?
Definitely just factory worker outfits. Why would you assume those were Nazi prisoner uniforms?
The vertical strikes are pretty distinct. Either way you can't say "definitely". The AI probably wasn't even prompted in this way; without any specific investigation, and just because I exist in the symbolic world, I would guess that there is proximity between the embeddings for "factory worker" and "camp prisoner". That is the common rhetoric, isn't it?
https://auschwitz.net/coleccion/prisoner-uniforms/
Because factory workers don't wear uniforms that look like that, ever since they picked up a bad association circa 1945. Google it - you won't find any photos of factory workers dressed like that.
I think the clip is possibly (and hopefully unintentionally) problematic, but I wouldn't go so far as to say Nazi. If you google "Paddington prison" you'll see a similar striped outfit. So prison labor.. still not awesome, but not necessarily Nazi. And, well, maybe relevant to mass electronic goods manufacturing in certain countries.
That said, he works at Midjourney.. so it's a weird blind spot, if it's a blind spot.
> If you google "Paddington prison" you'll see a similar striped outfit.
Those are horizontal stripes, not vertical.
Yup, hence "similar". Benefit of the doubt.. as the creator is also young.