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Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:41 pm
I was thinking of doing a thread on design aspects of the size and shape of a small camera phone, but published the following in another thread:
I wish BM would do something significant like this 4 inch rugged phone, with better sensor and chipset. A bit smaller than an iPhone se, and a bit larger than my current small phone.
I can buy much smaller than this, maybe even a better sensor, and I doubt it's the world's smallest rugged phone. I've found a site that lists phone brands, better than the sites I used previously, but can't search it and it doesn't tell enough to estimate which ones are the best. I was thinking of doing a thread on design aspects to do with optimal minimal phone size for us. The iPhone SE, is a little big, my old Alcatel is smaller but probably still a bit big, but if narrower, like this form factor, it would be pretty good. Going from a 4 inch screen size to that size, is optimal for a pocket device? Steve Jobs and Ives paid a lot of attention to the optimal size and ratio that feels good, which I do too, it's not all about the most beautiful in functionally using. Rather like a post modern house that looks as good outside as it does inside, for a change. Anyway, the early iPhones were very optimal, the translation to widescreen suffered a little. Been thinking extensively about a small phone design aspects last month, to fit a 865+ into. The iPhone stuff was coincidental, the Alcatel and my old Huawei are nice. The issue is, for filming it needs to be a bit longer to feel optimal than as a phone. I have narrowed down a good sleek design language for it. Apart from fitting a snapdragon 865 in it (a low energy version of the 845/855 would probably be enough) I concluded one of my other older proposals would be better, as android systems are pretty bad for high datarate realtime deterministic processing, and it could achieve a lot lower energy consumption. It was to use a custom ASIC. Years ago, I identified using an ASIC chip alongside the chipset to do the performance aspects. Pity I didn't go through with it (the theoretically increasing performance of chipsets versus the limitations of my technology provider seemed to indicate no marketable use, except android systems and market place are so constrained as to not reach their potential). That means that I could use a cheap chipset alongside the chip to get maximum performance, now days, alongside a mid range chip instead. The chip would have a lot of other marketable processing uses, enough to be incorporated into future chipsets? About $10 mil and I didn't get to finish my design proposal before the brain disease slowed me too much. My latest cooling technology strategy for this could make a workstation fit into a fraction of the size. An Intel i9 phone anybody? Seriously, you are unlikely to get it out if a low clock on all cores, but an interesting excercise.
I wish BM would do something significant like this 4 inch rugged phone, with better sensor and chipset. A bit smaller than an iPhone se, and a bit larger than my current small phone.
I can buy much smaller than this, maybe even a better sensor, and I doubt it's the world's smallest rugged phone. I've found a site that lists phone brands, better than the sites I used previously, but can't search it and it doesn't tell enough to estimate which ones are the best. I was thinking of doing a thread on design aspects to do with optimal minimal phone size for us. The iPhone SE, is a little big, my old Alcatel is smaller but probably still a bit big, but if narrower, like this form factor, it would be pretty good. Going from a 4 inch screen size to that size, is optimal for a pocket device? Steve Jobs and Ives paid a lot of attention to the optimal size and ratio that feels good, which I do too, it's not all about the most beautiful in functionally using. Rather like a post modern house that looks as good outside as it does inside, for a change. Anyway, the early iPhones were very optimal, the translation to widescreen suffered a little. Been thinking extensively about a small phone design aspects last month, to fit a 865+ into. The iPhone stuff was coincidental, the Alcatel and my old Huawei are nice. The issue is, for filming it needs to be a bit longer to feel optimal than as a phone. I have narrowed down a good sleek design language for it. Apart from fitting a snapdragon 865 in it (a low energy version of the 845/855 would probably be enough) I concluded one of my other older proposals would be better, as android systems are pretty bad for high datarate realtime deterministic processing, and it could achieve a lot lower energy consumption. It was to use a custom ASIC. Years ago, I identified using an ASIC chip alongside the chipset to do the performance aspects. Pity I didn't go through with it (the theoretically increasing performance of chipsets versus the limitations of my technology provider seemed to indicate no marketable use, except android systems and market place are so constrained as to not reach their potential). That means that I could use a cheap chipset alongside the chip to get maximum performance, now days, alongside a mid range chip instead. The chip would have a lot of other marketable processing uses, enough to be incorporated into future chipsets? About $10 mil and I didn't get to finish my design proposal before the brain disease slowed me too much. My latest cooling technology strategy for this could make a workstation fit into a fraction of the size. An Intel i9 phone anybody? Seriously, you are unlikely to get it out if a low clock on all cores, but an interesting excercise.
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bTruthful side topics in-line with or related to, the discussion accepted
cOften people deceive themselves so much they do not understand, even when the truth is explained to them