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$34 smartphone Part II - Teardown

Posted on May 19, 2015

In Part 1 of "Inside a $34 Smartphone" we poked at the software side of the dirt cheap Huami H3 smartphone.

Huami H3 Music Player Shortcut

We now know the phone is a Spreadtrum SC6825 passing off as a MediaTek. Using fake branding that combines Huawei and Xiaomi into Huami - something less than either.

Ka-boom …

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Inside a $34 smartphone (Part I)

Posted on May 16, 2015

(Speak Russian? Vlad translated this post!)

This Huami H3 smartphone cost me $34US (210RMB) in January. It's sold with a 5 inch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, 4G cell connectivity, Android 4.4 and an 8 core processor.

Huami H3

I picked it up in the electronics capital of the world - Shenzhen, China. My …

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The Elephant in the Keynote (LCA 2015)

Posted on January 19, 2015

On Friday I tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/projectgus/status/555828391329292289

This post expands on what I meant.

LCA

Last week I was fortunate to be in Auckland attending linux.conf.au. There are dozens of things I could write about from LCA, inspiring talks and fascinating people doing great …

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