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No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/

<div><img alt="pi 1990s brick phone" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/comparison-2-16-9.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p dir="auto">Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades now. However [Alan Boris] has <a href="https://github.com/alanb128/brick-phone" target="_blank">resurrected this classic phone</a> to operate today.</p>
<p dir="auto">Originally costing as much as today’s top-of-the-line phones, but instead of weighing just a few ounces this classic Motorola DynaTAC 8000 Classic 2 tips the scales at a hefty 1.5 lbs. [Alan Boris] decided to not just bring the electronics back to life, but to even stuff a modern cellphone inside it to make it fully functional. Given the size of this phone, finding room for the new innards wasn’t much of a challenge. In fact, after the retrofit there was less in the phone than when it started life.</p>
<p dir="auto">Using a perfboard and some tactile switches he was able to sense the button presses on the phone’s keypad and relay those to a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. The Pico in turn drove a small color LCD to replicate the original screen and controlled a pair of ADG729 boards used to dial the BM10 cellphone within this cellphone. The BM10 is a cellphone about the size of a 9V

No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/no-more-paperweight-this-vintage-brick-phone-is-back-online/
#PhoneHacks #ADG729 #Brickphone #Cellphone #Raspberrypipico2

Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/are-we-finally-at-the-point-where-phones-can-replace-computers/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/dex-pc-feat.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to think we’ve reached that point, and his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwgsGpIwhJo" target="_blank">recent video about the Samsung S26 Ultra</a> makes a good case for it. Part of that is software: Samsung’s DeX is a huge enabler for this use case. Part of that his hardware: the S26 Ultra, as the upcoming latest-and-greatest flagship phone, has absurd stats and a price tag to match.</p>
<p>First, it’s got 12 GB of that unobtanium once called “RAM”. It’s got an 8-core ARM processor in its Snapdragon Elite SOC, with the two performance cores clocked at 4.74 GHz — which isn’t a world record, but it’s pretty snappy. The other six cores aren’t just doddling along at 3.62 GHz. Except for the very youngest of our readers, you probably remember a time when the world’s greatest supercomputers had as much computing power as this phone.</p>
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<p>So it should be no suprise that when [ETA Prime] plugs it into a monitor (<a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/07/24/displayport-tapping-the-altmode/">using USB-C, natch</a>) he

Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers? https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/are-we-finally-at-the-point-where-phones-can-replace-computers/
#PhoneHacks #Convergence #Samsungdex #Smartphone #Userinterface

Old Desk Phone Gets DOOM Port https://hackaday.com/2026/03/03/old-desk-phone-gets-doom-port/
#PhoneHacks #Deskphone #Doom #Doomport #Phone

Old Desk Phone Gets Doom Port

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/03/old-desk-phone-gets-doom-port/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="449" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-25-121212-e1771981964619.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun to hack on, as [0x19] demonstrates <a href="https://0x19.co/post/snom360_doom/" target="_blank">by porting <em>Doom </em>to a Snom 360 office phone. </a></p>
<p>The Snom 360 is a device from the early VoIP era, with [ox19] laying their hands on some examples from 2005. The initial plan was just to do some telephony with Asterisk, but [ox19] soon realized more was possible. Digging into a firmware image revealed the device ran a Linux kernel on a MIPS chip, so the way forward became obvious. They set about hacking the phone to run <em>Doom</em> on its ancient single-color LCD. Doing so was no mean feat. It required compilation of custom firmware, pulling over a better version of BusyBox, and reworking <a href="https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric" target="_blank">doomgeneric</a> to run on this oddball platform. It also required figuring out how the keyboard was read and the screen was driven to write custom drivers—not at all trivial things on a bespoke phone platform. With all that done, though, [0x19] had a dodgy version of <em>Doom</em> running slowly on a desk phone on a barely-legible LCD disp

A Working Intercom From Antique Telephones https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/a-working-intercom-from-antique-telephones/
#PhoneHacks #Analog #Antique #Battery #Generator #Intercom #Phone #Restoration #Ringer #Wiring

Limiting Battery Risk On Repurposed Smartphones With PostmarketOS

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/limiting-battery-risk-on-repurposed-smartphones-with-postmarketos/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/asdfasdfasdf.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>PostmarketOS is a Linux distribution specifically designed for those who wish to repurpose old smartphones as general-use computers, to a degree. This can be a great way to reuse old hardware. However, for [Bry50], it was somewhat discomforting leaving the phone’s aging lithium battery perpetually on charge. <a href="https://github.com/bryansplace/PostmarketOS-limit-battery-voltage/blob/main/README.md" target="_blank">A bit of code was thus whipped up to provide a greater measure of safety.</a></p>
<p>The concept is simple enough—lithium batteries are at lower risk of surprise combustion events if they’re held at a lower state of charge. To this end, [Bry50] modified the device tree in PostmarketOS to change the maximum charge level. Apparently, maximum charge was set at a lofty 4.4V (100%), but this was reconfigured to a lower level of 3.8V, corresponding to a roughly 40-50% state of charge. The idea is that this is a much healthier way to maintain a battery hooked up to power for long periods of time. There’s one small hitch—the system will get confused if the battery voltage is higher than the 3.8 V setpoint when switching over. It’s thus important to let the device discharge to a lower level if you choose to make this change.</

Limiting Battery Risk On Repurposed Smartphones With PostmarketOS https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/limiting-battery-risk-on-repurposed-smartphones-with-postmarketos/
#PhoneHacks #Lithiumbattery #Lithiumionbattery #Postmarketos #Smartphone #Smartphones

Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/create-a-tiny-telephone-exchange-with-an-analog-telephone-adapter/
#PhoneHacks #Analogphone #Voiceoverip

An eight-minute read on how to play hide-and-seek with your phone's #WiFi antenna because who needs GPS when you have "environmental fingerprints"? 📡🔍 It's like a tech-savvy game of Marco Polo, but with extra steps and fewer pool noodles. 🤡
https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/nearby-peer-discovery/ #hideandseek #environmentalfingerprints #techsavvy #MarcoPolo #phonehacks #HackerNews #ngated

Bello Bear Bit 38 Grape Heist - Use code SAVE20 @ www.BelloBear.shop❣️

#GrapeHeist #PhoneHacks #weirdfacts #NoFingerprints #fyp

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Swiping Away Apps? You Might Be Wasting More Battery 🔋🚫

Modern smartphones are designed to handle background apps smartly. Constantly swiping them away might actually waste more power since they reload from scratch every time.

Tag a friend who keeps swiping — show them the smarter way to save battery. 📱⚡

#BatteryLife #SmartphoneTips #BatteryMyths #PhoneHacks #MobileTips #Neuronus

Ever feel like your Xiaomi phone is trying to trick you into downloading random apps?
😤 I got tired of clickbait games showing up in folders I didn’t even open.
Good news: there’s a one-second fix. Here’s how I stopped the madness for good 👉

#XiaomiTips #MIUI #TodayRecommendation #PhoneHacks

https://maryanjuguna.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/todays-recommendation-on-your-xiaomi-phone-driving-you-nuts-heres-the-fix/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Useful #phonehacks to make your life #easier
1. Uninstall useless apps
2. Edit quick settings
3. Turn off auto-rotate
4. Add captions to photos
5. Hold down a letter to access accents
6. Install apps on your phone with your computer
7. Customize notifications
8. Make your phone louder
9. Take a photo with the volume button
10. Control your smart home from your phone
11. Ditch all your loyalty cards
12. Ask the AI to help you take photos
13. Turn on dark mode
14. Make a DIY stylus

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Will Lewis, CEO of the Washington Post is IN the news again.
"On Monday, judge Mr Justice Fancourt was told that in the Met’s minutes of a meeting between detectives and (Will) Lewis on 8 July 2011, it was recorded Lewis had told them: 'We got a warning from a source that a current member of staff had got access to [the News International chief executive] Rebekah’s [Brooks’s] emails and had passed them to Tom Watson MP."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/29/news-international-gordon-brown-tom-watson-fake-security-threat
#Journalism #WillLewis #WaPo #PhoneHacks #Murdoch

How the Bell System Was Built https://hackaday.com/2024/07/15/how-the-bell-system-was-built/ #PhoneHacks #telephone #bell #att

#PhoneHacks

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