Finnish man Jani Pönkkö went to town on his old Mobira handset, which hails from the pre-brick days when cellphones were as big as a small briefcase.
His modifications started with the handset, where he went to town on the thing installing status LEDs, a Wi-Fi card, a sound card and speaker, and topped it all off with a 128 x 182 OLED panel. Below the handset, the main unit is used to house the motherboard, monitor, audio ports and a 32GB SSD – the power and USB cables reach the main unit through the phone’s curly cable.
Check out more pictures at MetkuMods, where Joni fully documented his 40+ hour build. [The Register]
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Aug 27, 2009 at 10:01 am
Isn’t that an S60 3rd Edition Home Screen on that thing?
If he’s got a Intel T5500 Core 2 Duo processor under the hood, then it’s either a clever skin or he’s got himself a version of S60 that’s compiled for use under X86…
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