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Kickstarter Campaign Aims To Add a Full Android Device To the Back of Your iPhone (macrumors.com)
A new Kickstarter campaign aims to expand the iPhone's functionality with its "Eye Smart iPhone Case," which features a fully functional Android device built into the case itself. The campaign was launched on March 1 and has already raised over $100,000. Mac Rumors reports: An always-on 5-inch AMOLED display is built into the case, which runs the Android 7.1 Nougat operating system. The case connects to the iPhone using its Lightning port to enable file transfers, power delivery, and more. A microSD card slot provides up to 256GB of storage for holding photos, videos, and other media, all of which is accessible using the Android file explorer. A built-in 2,800 mAh battery provides additional charge to the iPhone, and the Eye case itself supports Qi wireless charging. Two SIM card slots are included, and higher-end models support 4G LTE connectivity, so up to three phone numbers can be used with an iPhone. Android exclusive features, like native call recording, the file explorer, customization, file transfers, and Android apps are all made available to iPhone users via the Eye case. A 3.5mm headphone jack lets iPhone owners with an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 Plus to use wired headphones with the device, and the Eye case includes NFC, an IR blaster and receiver for controlling TVs and other devices, and a car mount. It's available for the iPhone 6 and later, and will allegedly be available for the new wave of iPhones coming in 2017 within a month of their release. The Smart iPhone Case is available for a Super early bird pledge of $95, with prices going up for 4G connectivity. The estimated retail price is between $189 and $229.
...and if the Android case needs a case, does it need to be an Android case Android case?
Hmm...?!
I would rather have a real keyboard added to my Android... RIM is asleep at the wheel, they could be building real keyboards (maybe with extra battery pack in them!) and licensing/selling them as add-ons to existing smart-phones.
You can't handle the truth.
This is an expensive joke, but I wholeheartedly approve. Please make this a thing! This is hilarious. I can't wait to see people trying to use it.
(Just don't sign me up; I wouldn't use it if you gave it to me for free AND gave me a free unlimited phone plan to go with it.)
Almost as good as owning an Android device
The iPhone is just a "BATTERY"! Muahahahahahaaaaa! LAME!
Have gnu, will travel.
Just get an android phone in the first place.
This is pure stupidity. If you want to use an iPhone, use an iPhone. If you want to use an Android device, use that. But this makes as much sense as welding a Chevy to the back of a Honda and pretending you've achieved something worthwhile. A lot of people in tech have entirely too much time on their hands.
...,have Tindr on one side and Grindr on the other. And use them both at the same time.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Pretending a man's rectum is a vagina.
1. Come up with a wack-a-doodle idea.
2. Build Kickstarter page
3. Get a "story" on Slashdot
4. ?
5. Profit! (That is, burn through a lot of cash on booze, weed, and expensive cocktails)
6. Fold.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Android pretending to be iphone
I think phones like that have been available in China for years. ;-)
Business on the front, party on the back.
Just buy a top of the line Android.
This story is a dumb idea.
> lets iPhone owners with an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 7 Plus to use wired headphones with the device
the iPhone 7 already has wired headphones:
http://www.apple.com/shop/prod...
They use the Lightning connector (not a 3.5mm jack), but it won't make much difference unless you need to charge at the same time.
dna.js
This is pure stupidity. If you want to use an iPhone, use an iPhone. If you want to use an Android device, use that.
Well its sort of convenient for developers who want to target both platforms ;-)
In the days of $350 Nexus devices I wouldn't think about it at all. Now in the days of $650 Pixel devices I might briefly think about it.
A lot of people in tech have entirely too much time on their hands.
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
You get to have a piece of crap phone - - - attached to a different piece of crap phone.
I get the feeling that the target audience here are iPhone 7 owner who want to have sex with their phone but are incapable of it. Yes, I'm sure some of them had to have their iPhones surgically removed from an orifice but that's clearly not good enough. Other than that, I have no idea who would buy such a ridiculous device. Do some people just not like having money and need to get rid of it? :-/
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
How many Kickstarter projects never ship a product? Yet people still keep coming back or more abuse. Amazing, really.
>An always-on 5-inch AMOLED display is built into the case, which runs the Android 7.1 Nougat; microSD card slot provides up to 256GB ; 2,800 mAh battery ; Qi wireless charging. Two SIM card slots are included ; 4G LTE connectivity ; 3.5mm headphone ; IR blaster" "The estimated retail price is between $189 and $229"
Hey, I have a better idea. Instead of messing around with being a "case", why not just forget the whole iphone nonsense and release it AS A PHONE ITSELF. Make sure the battery is swappable, throw in some decent cameras, and add $50 more for it and sell at $250 to $275 (based on the claimed retail price). Many of us have been waiting for a suitable replacement for the Nexus 5, this might be it; we had a fast, decent phone for around that price, with a nice 5" screen and QI charging.
You've posted this story 16 days too early.
I heard you like phones so I put a phone on your phone so you can send a text while you make a call.
If you've got an iPhone, why would you want an iPhone knock-off?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Did you type this with your fuck-tard fone up your arse on vibrate to invoke some form of emotional reaction?
Did your Boss at Apple ask you to respond like this?
I deal gift for someone who's gay but wants to cover it up.
Don't see the point. I'm sure China makes Android phones which closely resemble iPhones, so just buy one and put it in a case if you want to be able to jerk off to other people about having iJunk. If you want the full Apple experience burn £700 of notes.
Double the price ??? Where you getting your phones from ? Might be the UK of course, but an iPhone 7 here is £599, last Chiphone I bought (Cubot Dinosaur) cost me about £100. If you just want a simpler phone (this one has a big screen and battery, it's nearly a mini tablet) you can get a decent phone for half that. Apple are stuffed when the population realise they are scamming them big time. It used to be seven or eight years ago (say) that there was a noticeable quality gap between iPads/iPhones and the chinese equivalents. Now there pretty much isn't, or it's barely noticeable.
Handy if you're a developer who has to develop for both platforms.
What this really lacks is a windows phone. Simply order my case for this and you can have one built into the four unused sides! Why have a ultra thin phone when you can have cube phone(tm)!
Put an android in it...
But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason. If it was an e-ink display like the Yota, maybe, but why have a wholly separate OS?
I wish there was a choice that said "Factually Wrong -1" when I mod.
If you want Android, why not just port virtualization software to iOS.
Hell, you could even run XP on while the world goes on with something more interesting.
A way to make an iphone useful.
looks like someone has run out of hookers and blow and needs to re-up.
How can anyone make a case that has another cellphone in it and then sell it for $119 ($149 for 4G). it Literally makes no sense as to why they just wouldn't put forth a cellphone for that much. Yes i understand it isnt a full phone but its almost there anyways, all its missing is a mic and speaker.
this is vaporware and i can see this being shut down or never delivering. shame on you /. for helping these people scam more money out of people.
The English on the kickstarter is atrocious and the faq are laughable but the real kicker is the company information:
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
its partners are a random dude and an ad company. the name of the person that started the campaign and the named owner of the company are different, very odd...
something suspicious from the faq:
"I've just backed you up, why I was not given a choice to choose color and iPhone model of Eye?
After the campaign will end, you'll get a survey asking you about the iPhone model, color and address."
why not just ask that information with the pledge?
also found something in the comments from the creator:
"We did a lot of research about manufacturing and software developing cost for this project. The reward price and the campaign goal will guarantee supplying Eye to are backers and Kick start our company for further production."
research eh??,,, please tell me how they will be able to stick a large battery, lcd and sim/expansion cards in something that is claimed to be thinner than just a battery pack case?
Wouldn't it be more useful to add dual-boot functionality to the iPhone?
What this really means is, they can't put the simple and obvious answer on iTunes, so apple logo-wielding dickheads can buy another phone; they like spending money on bling anyway.
I heard you like phones with your phone, so I got you a phone for your phone!
Eh.
There are quite a lot of people that own both an iPhone and an Android device. This would cater to those who would want to use two devices but only carry one cellphone.
That said, yes, It doesn't look very practical. If butt dialing was a problem, this is double the trouble.
I have both, and if I wanted only one phone, I'd have gotten a dual SIM phone. In the past, there were some killer apps on iOS that were not there on Android, such as FaceTime, but that's been levelled both w/ Duo/Hangouts as well as WhatsApp. So there is no reason to get this contraption. I use one phone for work and another for family, and keep them very separate: my kid can play w/ the iPhone, but not the Android, while the other can be used in a BYOD environment, but not the iPhone. Otherwise, DavidinAla is right: get the phone you want.
Not to go off-topic, but she had something like 6 or 7 devices
She originally claimed that using the personal server for work was so she would only need to carry one device.
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
I have an idea that would be more worthwhile. Build a car navigation unit that comes w/o its own maps (for which they right now charge $200 every time the map changes), but w/ all the software hooks to any platform - iOS, Android or even Windows 10. So if an iPhone owner gets into the car, Apple Maps will project itself to the screen, and not just that, the iPad set-up will work so that one can play one's playlists directly, as well as the ability to do FaceTime, normal calls, et al. If it's an Android user, same thing - the screen acts as a Chromecast, and Google Maps is projected there, as well as a few others, like Waze, Play Music, Hangouts, Duo, and other apps that could work w/ those things, such as Yelp! Same for Windows 10: enable Bing Maps there, as well as Groove, and one would be set.
Right now, some cars have stereo systems that are Apple compatible, some have Apple CarPlay, some have Android Auto. With something like this, one could get any smartphone and play it seamlessly with the system. Also, connect it directly via USB, instead of Bluetooth, so that instead of draining the battery, the phones can charge while the person is driving.
No, you're wrong. It's shame, shame, shame all the way down.
I expect that in general people are happy with IOS or Android. Not sure how much having both would bring extra, and it is clunky to have them together.
But, perhaps, a thin ebook reader a la kindle would be an interesting back for an iOS or an android device. Because the electronic paper of those readers is much more pleasant to read books than traditional screens.
No, she originally claimed that she used her personal phone for official work so that she'd only have to carry one device
This is for those people who know an Android is what they need but the peer pressure to stay in the "in" iPhone crowd makes them want to keep their iPhone. This way they can have their cake and eat it too.
Yo dawg, we heard you like phones, so we put a phone on your phone so you can use a phone while you use your phone, dawg!
if there is an App on bothe the iPhone and the Roid on it's rear to show visual or context useage on a price to performance ratio, then is this device the proverbial bitch knife fight between a rubber chicken?
Which device gets reduced or replaced to a battery and expansion bank in the casement?
ANNOUNCEMENT:
in this corner, weighing 10 ounces dry, the Syrian pill-popping tranny from Calif-hornia that jus-tworks 10-times what the pimp payed....is Missir Iphone!
AND
in this corner, weighing a gaunt 6oz wet,the decendent of the gay golden droid that waived at you as you travelled through the desert, the lovely gaping maw of an architecture that stretches open support to every graveyard that can fit inside it's io channel, the lovely qwerty banzai herpe of chast AT&T eunuchs playing BSDm duct tape in the basement water-cooled cluster, here is the stripped twirly girlymandrag Anna Droid!
*bell* and they're off!
can someone please explain how a 5.1 screen that i always on will not drain the battery pack at a rate slow enough to provide the ability to charge the Iphone off of the android battery pack? the screen is usually the biggest power draw on any device.
even considering the radio being a close second while the non 4g case could do with out the radio chip but the 4g case will definitely have one.
then we get to the size, they claim to be thinner than the mophie juice pack yet with a screen and enough room for a memory card,2 sim slots and other included hardware.
thus it seems to me that this kickstarter is making some extraordinary claims... extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Talk about a solution looking for a problem.
Doesn't Marshmallow or at least Nougat have that? Is the internal flash drive something that has to become secondary storage, or can it be programmed to be a non-volatile cache?
Ya know when yer a redneck when you buy a phone, to stack another phone on top of to look cool..
My pa used to have one of them old console tv's. Looked great like furniture, but because it looked so good, he used it as a TV stand for ANOTHER portable Color TV. an RCA holding up a GoldStar.. He happened to live in a trailer park, in a trailer.. Go figure right.
...it be easier to just let a dog shit on the back of my iPhone.
She originally claimed that using the personal server for work was so she would only need to carry one device.
No, she originally claimed that she used her personal phone for official work so that she'd only have to carry one device
It was all about the email, hence the server.
"“First, when I got to work as Secretary of State, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two. -- Hillary Clinton, news conference addressing her private email server, March 10, 2015”
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
All you need to do is buy an Android Phone, an iPhone case, and glue them together. Kickstarter is getting really weird tehse days :-(
So, you want to take a phone that has a notoriously bad battery life and piggy-back another device on it?
Yeah, that makes sense.