Group: Hardware/Computers/Smartwatches

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== Definition ==
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== Introduction ==
  
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According to Harald Welte's [http://git.gnumonks.org/laforge-slides/plain/2010/gsm_phone-anatomy/gsm_phone-anatomy-v0.2.pdf Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphone hardware (2010)], "A smartphone is a phone that has a dedicated processor for the GSM protocol stack, and another (potentially multi-core) general purpose processor for the user interface and applications." and "A feature phone is a phone that runs the GSM protocol stack (the software implementing the GSM protocol)as well as the user interface and all applications on a single processor."
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Many smartwatches have signed bootloaders, so it means that they are fatally flawed and can't run fully free software. This section will try to locate the best candidate smartwatches for fully free software.
  
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== Scope ==
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As for the use case it's not clear how accurate the sensors are<ref>https://media.ccc.de/v/trans-tech-tent-55016-smart-watches-are</ref>, but maybe there is still some medical use possible for use cases that don't require precise sensors.
  
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The [https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki Replicant wiki] has a lot of information on various Android and GNU/Linux smartphones.
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There might also be some other use cases like for authentication, to keep some encryption keys, etc.
  
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That wiki also have information on many devices that the Replicant project doesn't want to support as it is still relevant to free software support (or the lack thereof) for smartphones and tablets.
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== References ==
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For feature phones, the [https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki osmocomBB wiki] has a lot of information on various devices that are supported or could be supported by osmocomBB and other related projects (Nuttx, etc).
 
  
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However some devices do not fit in either categories:
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* There are some smartphones without any touchscreen that have a feature-phone like formfactor. Due to the limited input capabilities (feature-phone like numpad) they are not well suited to run common Android or GNU/Linux desktop environments. As some run derivative of FirefoxOS, it would still be interesting to do some research on them, for instance to get the corresponding source code.
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This set of pages talks about Smartwatches.
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Latest revision as of 18:47, 13 May 2023

Introduction

Many smartwatches have signed bootloaders, so it means that they are fatally flawed and can't run fully free software. This section will try to locate the best candidate smartwatches for fully free software.

As for the use case it's not clear how accurate the sensors are[1], but maybe there is still some medical use possible for use cases that don't require precise sensors.

There might also be some other use cases like for authentication, to keep some encryption keys, etc.

References

  1. ↑ https://media.ccc.de/v/trans-tech-tent-55016-smart-watches-are


Pages

This set of pages talks about Smartwatches.


(Note that this page does not automatically update; if you add another page under Hardware/, make sure to refresh/purge this page.)


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