I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0

83•Timothee•1d ago

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w-ll•1h ago

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.

roughly•1h ago

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.

abnercoimbre•2m ago

And what do you use these days?

RandomBacon•1h ago

Cool.

I suggest watching this on 2x playback speed.

umvi•1h ago

"I repackaged a broken zFlip 5 into a custom enclosure with a blackberry keyboard"

Still pretty cool though.

rafram•1h ago

0:30: An AI-generated clip that appears to show people in Nazi prisoner uniforms.

What?

Mogzol•1h ago

Definitely just factory worker outfits. Why would you assume those were Nazi prisoner uniforms?

rafram•58m ago

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.

browningstreet•53m ago

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.

latexr•39m ago

> If you google "Paddington prison" you'll see a similar striped outfit.

Those are horizontal stripes, not vertical.

browningstreet•34m ago

Yup, hence "similar". Benefit of the doubt.. as the creator is also young.

incr_me•56m ago

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?

latexr•37m ago

https://auschwitz.net/coleccion/prisoner-uniforms/

jonny_eh•1h ago

The googled or genrerated a video with "sad workers making phones"?

joshstrange•55m ago

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.

cm2187•47m ago

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.

arewethereyeta•26m ago

Zenfone 10 is pretty cool if you chase the form factor

mstade•8m ago

I have an iPhone 13 mini to sell you :o)

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