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 It seems to me that even the most outdated cellphone has far superior features (screen, touch screen, Wifi, 3g/4g camera(s), battery etc) in a much better form factor.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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Re:Pi has better hosts file support than most phon by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-25 10:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Oh shit, the hosts files have become self-aware and started hacking accounts.
Captcha: vibrator
Re:Pearls before swine? by Nemyst · 2013-03-25 13:54 · Score: 5, Funny

And this, dear friends, is why geeks are often considered to be antisocial.
Re:Received an iPhone as a gift by tehcyder · 2013-03-26 04:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Shouldn't the precious snowflake just be fucking grateful their doting parents have given them an over-priced unnecessasry toy?

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