On April 23, 2017 1:20:47 AM EDT, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
it's also why i haven't done a smart (or dumb) phone, because *without* that smaller size (due to "stacking") you simply can't make a small enough PCB for it to be socially acceptable, these days.
I would totally buy and use a phone large enough to fit an eoma68 CPU card. But there may not be wide enough appeal to get the costs down to a reasonable number.
There was a lot of hype around the ability to dock your phone into a desktop so you only have to carry one computer. It should be possible to ride off of that hype by demonstrating popping your CPU card out and putting it in a desktop/laptop housing and vice versa.
It just makes so much more sense to separate the core CPU card from the "peripherals" like you did with EOMA.