I tried to find some technical details, but there is nothing on the tutorials page. The press page links to a few articles in French, but all I found was that there is that there is no 4G, and "Circuit artisinal fonctionnel" on a diagram.
It would be great to know how it compares with other DIY phone projects like ZeroPhone.
The way it looks reminds me of the Handspring Visor[1] for some reason (with less buttons).
With all respect to the younger generation, this is project is oversold compared to previous similar projects.
BTW, which OSHW project is advanced enough to deserve more contributions ?
Back to paxo one, According to
https://github.com/paxo-phone/paxo-electronic
It is integration of SIM800L modem with ESP32
Software side, the main app (aka OS):
A rather unfortunate choice of name!
Oh man. Again one of those projects where someone glues together an Arduino (ESP, Raspberry,...), a modem module and a battery. I'm not sure where this is "educational" (except for the creators, of course).
I've been using hacky phones all my life (N900, N9, Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch, Pinephone, Librem5) and I really really really just want people to finally concentrate their efforts and build a (non-android) open-source phone (HW + ecosystem) that's actually usable.
Sorry for this non-constructive post, but this is a topic that bothers me quite a lot.
I read a lot of negative/pesimistic comments, but just to put things in perspective, this phone was developped by a middle/high school guy when he was 13~16 years old… come on guys…