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 It seems to me that even the most outdated cellphone has far superior features (screen, touch screen, Wifi, 3g/4g camera(s), battery etc) in a much better form factor.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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Android development kit by Tim+the+Gecko · 2013-03-25 10:30 · Score: 5, Informative

How about this? - http://www.adafruit.com/products/885 - IOIO Mint - Portable Android Development Kit
Re:Arduino Uno by SQLGuru · 2013-03-25 12:00 · Score: 5, Informative

With an Android phone, you just need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go
Buy one here: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/micro-to-micro-otg (site might be blocked at some work locations as they might think it's hacking related)