Tag: RePhone

RePhone, SIM testing and more keyboard hacking

This is a follow up on my previous RePhone Keyboard post.

My sim-card cutter arrived, so I chopped my pay-as-you-go sim card and got the phone activated. That process went remarkably smoothly, simply following the instructions provided with the card. I’m using a 711 Speakout card currently, but bought it before their new nano cards were released.

The phone itself as it is is very basic, but does that job just fine. The microphone seems to pick up sound ok, but the audio out seems very quiet by default even at full volume. After confirming the initial phone setup worked, I loaded my first version of the keyboard hack code onto the phone and sadly confirmed that my code didn’t work. 🙁

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RePhone Keyboard Hack.

So, I posted before about the RePhone stuff I’ve been playing with but here I’ll talk about one specific deficiency and the fix I’ve programmed and released to the wild.

The RePhone Kit Create software (source code on github) provides a very basic cellphone and Xadow module interface. By default, it provides the following interfaces:

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Introducing the RePhone!

A while ago, while my wife and I were doing that Modern Canadian Task we all love: What to do now that the cellphone contract is over?

I’ve been unhappy with the current cellphone/smrtphone/handheld computer options for a while, and have looked into building my own in various and sundry ways, but never got one done. With the end of the contract and the ability to do WTF we wanted with our old Blackberry’s and the contract, I thought I’d look again at the offerings available online. And that’s when I came across the RePhone Kickstarter.

Completed RePhone Kit Create
Completed RePhone Kit Create

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