PiPhone - A Raspberry Pi based Cellphone
Lemmy [Unofficial]
April 16, 2026
submitted by technocrit to linux
73 points | 8 comments
https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cellphone
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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