[Discuss] build my own cell phone

[Richard Pieri]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> purchased phone and mod it in some fashion. I'm not aware of any phones
> that are designed to permit swapping components.

For all practical purposes there really aren't any components to swap.  All of a typical cell phone's working guts are a single ASIC and some support circuitry for the battery, display and keypad.  Smartphones are a SOC for the "smart" and a baseband ASIC for the "phone".

--Rich P.