SmolPhone

The SmolPhone project is an action research on the topic of low-tech in the domain of IT systems. Its practical aspects consist in designing a sort of low- tech smartphone offering some services of a classical smartphone with a one-week battery lifetime. The goal is not to optimize a typical smartphone but rather to reconsider the smartphone design space, exploring unusual architectures and evaluating the set of features that should be part of long-lasting smartphones, and devise relevant hardware for such concerns.

The goal of this exploratory action is to unlock several technical blockers by conceiving a hardware & software development environment that could later be leveraged by researchers in the domain of frugal computing.