#beepy — Public Fediverse posts

@valhalla @praveen it also depends on the hardware, doesn't it?

#Debian on a #PocoF1 is very much a smartphone, but if you put the same label to Debian on a #Beepy it won't quite live up to expectations

Unfortunately, many people have the impression that "being small with a physical numpad" and "capable of running complex applications" are mutually exclusive resulting in most manufacturers not giving good specs to such devices. So in practice #KaiOS phones are closer to feature phones 😕

Attack Of The Beepy Clones - In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/ #blackberrykeyboard #blackberryhacks #handheldshacks #sharpmemorylcd #openhardware #hackberrypi #colorberry #hackberry #beepy #bepis #sqfmi

Attack Of The Beepy Clones https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/ #blackberrykeyboard #blackberryhacks #handheldshacks #SharpMemoryLCD #openhardware #hackberrypi #colorberry #hackberry #Beepy #Bepis #SQFMI

@disaster2life I mean #KaiOS is good if you want to also make and receive phone calls/SMS or create a 4G WiFi hotspot on said portable hackable device?

But if those are not important there'd be other options too (check #Beepy and #WiPhone!) :raspberrypi:

For me, it was the one device I'd carry around (until I got #Mobian on my #PocoF1, but my #Nokia2720Flip is still 💯 when I'm not in the city and apt to be blocked by QR-coded React-bloated ticketing systems or something)

compiled #inform7 version 10 git on the #beepy it took about an hour. now i can not only #frotz on it, but can also #glulxe my own stuff in the sun. ;)

after playing with it today. i just thought, the fresh #beepy feels like a predecessor of the #openmoko

https://beepy.sqfmi.com/
http://openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
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