Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:27AM from the expensive-knock-off dept.

scorp1us writes "I've been looking into getting a Raspberry Pi, but I end up needing a case, a display, and some way to power it, and wanting some degree of portability. It seems to me that even the most outdated cellphone has far superior features (screen, touch screen, Wifi, 3g/4g camera(s), battery etc) in a much better form factor. The only thing that is missing are the digital/analog in/out pins. So why not flip it around and make a USB or bluetooth peripheral board with just the pins? I've been looking for this and can't find any, but does anyone know of any in the corners of the internet? I don't care what phone platform."

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Pearls before swine? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-25 10:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If you can't figure out why a Raspberry Pi might be a more useful computing platform than a cellphone....you're not the target demographic.
You're a consumer. Go enjoy your shrink-wrapped toys.
Re:It's also fine if you have an iPhone by Microlith · 2013-03-25 11:52 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Yeah, just jailbreak. And enjoy the cat and mouse game with Apple as they try to stuff you back in the box with each update.

Bluetooth
Which adds a nice layer of complication to a project.
No, the answer is to not use iOS devices. Apple obviously doesn't want you to.