Build-it-yourself cell phones
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| Surj Patel is building his own cell phone, bit by soldered bit.
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| It's not easy. It starts with parts that cost around $400. Then Patel
| and his partner, Deva Seetharam, have to write code to run on the
| tiny Linux-based computer that he's hoping will serve as the brains
| of his new phone.
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| "I want the phone to be much more open," Patel said. "The world's
| best research and development lab is all the hackers out there.
| Enable them, and they'll do it."
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| "I think as more people move to mobile devices, they will be
| running into more and more limits with closed systems," Halverson
| said.
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