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Oct 10 10:58:36 <rah> https://www.crowdsupply.com/qutecha/minotaur-one
Oct 10 10:59:35 <rah> http://www.techgeek.com/#minotaur
Oct 10 11:05:44 <pabs3> reminds me of pyra/pandora
Oct 10 11:06:38 <rah> aye
Oct 10 11:06:51 <rah> except it's got a phone, which is exactly what I want
Oct 10 11:06:57 <rah> (and also it isn't made my Schaller ;-)
Oct 10 11:16:13 <pabs3> that is a plus
Oct 10 11:17:01 <pabs3> not very public about their team though..
Oct 10 11:26:47 <antrik> I remember some mention of a phone option for Pyra. what happened to thatZ
Oct 10 11:26:50 <antrik> ?
Oct 10 11:28:27 <antrik> (BTW, is Schaller that bad? I know he doesn't understand crowdfunding and has some issues with openness, but he seems allright all in all...)
Oct 10 11:34:37 * rah dox's the qutecha people
Oct 10 11:35:22 <rah> apparently, some guy named James Garvin in Andover, Massachusetts
Oct 10 11:36:24 <bencoh> antrik: pyra should ship with an optional modem, which is suitable for voice as well
Oct 10 11:37:48 <rah> antrik: in my (not so humble) opinion, the guy's a total dick
Oct 10 11:39:47 <rah> I don't really want to launch into a tirade of issues I have with Schaller's character, but suffice it to say that I would be at it for a while if I chose to :-)
Oct 10 12:41:11 <pabs3> rah: #debian-arm verdict: <christoph> pabs: but aging i.MX6 and almost no highspeed connectors
Oct 10 13:03:28 <rah> pabs3: but it's a handheld with a phone! :-)
Oct 10 13:04:36 <rah> I've wanted one since back in the Nokia Communicator days
Oct 10 13:04:44 <pabs3> wonder how it compares with the Neo900
Oct 10 13:22:56 * rah says nothing :-)
Oct 10 13:23:26 <rah> btw, one of my new bosses is a professor of electrical engineering at Liverpool University :-)
Oct 10 13:24:54 <rah> unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be down with the whole "freedom" thing
Oct 10 14:24:50 <bencoh> pabs3: imx6? which handheld are you talking about?
Oct 10 14:25:19 <bencoh> ah, minotaur
Oct 10 14:27:01 <bencoh> it doesn't look that bad actually
Oct 10 14:28:36 <bencoh> and "aging imx6" is quite good regarding perf and openness, compared to other platforms
Oct 10 14:29:41 <bencoh> public documentation and binaries, source code for almost everything you'd need, active community and kernel development
Oct 10 14:30:10 <bencoh> it's not that bad a choice
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