David Kramer wrote: >> ...the capabilities of this camera are likely blown away by a >> sub-$50 Android smartphone... > > Not so minor nit: Show me a sub $50 Android smartphone. And by that I > mean you buy the phone for sub-$50 and that's that. No contract or > commitments.
Your price expectations were valid not that long ago, but there have been a bunch of sub-$100 no-contract phones come onto the market. If you look through a flyer for one of the drug store chains, you'll see them packaged up from the pre-paid carriers, like Net10 and Boost Mobile. All off contract. If these are selling retail - after multiple layers of middlemen - in the $50 to $100 range, then an off-brand equivalent can be sourced for under $50. This is the specific one I was thinking of: $59.99 BLU Dash Junior D140 Unlocked GSM Dual-SIM Android Smartphone http://www.microcenter.com/product/430556/Dash_Junior_D140_Unlocked_GSM_Dual-SIM_Android_Smartphone_-_Black I think it was selling for $49.99 in the ad where I first saw it. That gets you a single-core 1.0 GHz CPU, ARM Mali-400 GPU, a mere 256 MB of RAM, and only 512 MB of storage, with a 320 x 480 screen. Those specs are worse than the first Android phone I owned, but it also has a 2 mega pixel camera, and along with that CPU/GPU blows away the hardware in any security camera I currently own (which admittedly are all a few years old and sub-$300). -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
