Your raspberry needs a case, a SD, etc. Cost add up.
A Pi Zero with WiFi costs about $10, case costs another $10, a name brand 32 GB SD card runs $10, and a 3.5" screen runs about $20 for a grand total of $50. A screen won't fit in the stock zero case but the zero does have a micro HDMI port.
I just can not see how spending more on an elaborate raspberry setup, to have an overall worse solution in the end can be a better idea.
Well none of that is true, so there's that. As an added bonus you don't have to exploit security vulns to get root on a Pi.
Leaving the screen aside, does the PI also has a battery and 1G of RAM?
That's what the $57 new phone has.
EDIT: it was a rhetorical question. Never mind. Keep spending on Rapsberries, while I will keep spending on waterproof devices with a battery/screen/camera that are sold as 'phones'
A Pi Zero with WiFi costs about $10, case costs another $10, a name brand 32 GB SD card runs $10, and a 3.5" screen runs about $20 for a grand total of $50. A screen won't fit in the stock zero case but the zero does have a micro HDMI port.
I just can not see how spending more on an elaborate raspberry setup, to have an overall worse solution in the end can be a better idea.
Well none of that is true, so there's that. As an added bonus you don't have to exploit security vulns to get root on a Pi.