The discussion revolves around the feasibility and challenges of building a cell phone independently. Participants explore the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources required for such a project, touching on both theoretical and practical aspects of cellular technology.
Participants generally agree on the complexity and difficulty of building a cell phone independently, but there is disagreement on whether it is entirely impossible or simply impractical. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the feasibility of such a project.
Participants note the significant expertise required in various fields, including RF design and wireless communication, and the collaborative nature of cell phone development. There are also references to specific technologies and standards that may not be fully explored in the discussion.
It is likely impossible to build your own working cell phone. And certainly it is pointless.Originally posted by flexifirm
SO for you to match the expertise of all these people, would be very hard and POINTLESS.
Originally posted by mmwave
How about some hard data on this. With a top RF design professor advising us, a friend & I spend 10 weeks building subsystems to make a cell phone. We spent 10 to 20 hours a week studying, building and testing the subsystems. At the end of the 10 weeks, we used our subsystem as the transmitter and a similar one as the receiver (so 4 people * 15 hours/wk * 10 weeks) and we managed to send morse code because we were too exhausted build a circuit to do the voice modulation. In total there were 12 of us trying to do this and only 8 finally got it working. Some of us were already experts at using all the test gear we had at our disposal. (Before you laugh realize that it worked at 2.4 GHz and was all discrete except for the PLL chip.)