Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[joerg Reisenweber]

On Thu 03 October 2013 08:56:43 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > I know.  But I'm not talking about swapping the actual CPU or the
> > actual display.  I'm talking about swapping the "CPU module" or the
> > "display module".  I.e. create a standardized module interface around
> > off-the-shelf (i.e. non-standardized) components.
> 
> Yes, there is even a standard for an interface between displays and CPU.
> Well, even two or three:
> 
> MIPI, LVDS, HDMI/DVI.
> 
> > It would have its own cost (in money and in size), but in the long run,
> > I hope the benefits of relying on standardized interfaces would make up
> > for it.
> 
> MIPI is already doing all this:
> 
> http://www.mipi.org/specifications
> http://mipi.org/about-mipi/mipi-interfaces-mobile-platform
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Industry_Processor_Interface
> 
> Everyone is there, ARM, TI, even Apple:

Remains to annotate that all those interfaces have rather tough electrical 
specs, e.g. MIPI HSI (often used to interface to modems) has a max PCB trace 
length of 15..20mm iirc, among other requirements that basically forbid usage 
of any connectors at all, for sure the iuse of cheap connectors.

/j
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