Everything Is Great
We haven't been posting much online recently and a few folks are asking if the project is still alive. Yes, things are going fine :). Phones are in st...
Wrapping Up And Shipping
If you backed on Kickstarter and haven't filled out your survey, please do that now. We will begin shipping all of the phones (not just Early Tester p...
Improved Calling
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - ALMOST DONE - ...
UDP SIP
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
Firmware Update Test
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
Regular WiPhones Now Shipping
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
Status
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
PCB Samples
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
Status
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN PROGR...
Status
[] To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - MAYBE DONE - make sure automatic firmware updates are working well - IN P...
Status
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - IN PROGRESS - send out more phones to hackers, make sure automatic firmware...
Injection Molding
To-Do List - DONE - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - IN PROGRESS - send out more phones to hackers, make sure automatic firmware...
A Plan To Finish Shipping Everything
WiPhone: Not Dead Yet! Here's What's Left - finish setting up wireless firmware updates - send out phones some more phones to hackers, make sure...
LoRa Range Testing
The LoRa boards are debugged. Before finishing we did some range testing to help choose the antennas. Having some complete LoRa boards will allow us t...
Status
[] Oh Ye Of Little Faith We are receiving reports of some backers literally dying due to an acute lack of project updates. This is a travesty and we...
Status
Thanks all for the patience. It was a ton of work last month keeping up with China's ever-changing rules for PPE export, but we did manage to send out...
Mid-Apocalyptic Humanitarian Change Of Plans
There is a lot of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) available in China right now. We think the best place for it to be is on someone's body, and not...
Pre-PostApocalyptic WiPhone Status Update
Welcome, everyone, to the project update where we pretend like nothing is wrong and we have everything under control. It might even be true. Ask your ...
Documentation
Status The 100 sets of Pros currently in production will be done after the factories in China start back up again. The Chinese New Year festival is o...
Supplier Issues And Project Status
Short Version Status Update We haven't shipped many phones since the last update. There have been some quality issues with the most important supplie...
Where Is My Phone
First off, everyone has been pretty cool so far about the shipping delays. I appreciate the level of understanding. I will continue keep everyone info...
Certification Completion and Shipping Plans
[Latest PCBA with black soldermask on visible areas] Certification The certification people are saying they are done. We haven't seen the actual acc...
Product Name and Rear Cover Material
Name Change So we've been learning about trademarks and, according to the USPTO, descriptive names aren't allowed to be trademarked. The engineer in ...
Production Parts
Status Mostly doing assembly and reliability testing while we wait for the certifications to finish. So far we've spent a lot of time on choosing a c...
FCC Certification and Reliability Testing
Status We got the next board rev back. Board fab took quite a while longer than it was supposed to, but so far it's looking like we may not need anot...
Big Dead Bug
Big Dead Bug We finally got to the bottom of some audio issues that had us running in circles for a while. This was a tricky one because there were a...
First Production Candidate PCB
The bank situation is resolved. We managed to pay some vendors yesterday. Hoping to switch banks ASAP once I'm back in the States. No sense in wasting...
Bank Issue
Hello from a very hot and sweaty Shenzhen, China! [] Chase Bank locked us out of our account. I'm currently in China and we can't pay any vendors or...
Early Evaluation Units Shipped
We Shipped! (...technically) Thanks for tolerating the relative silence. First evaluation units are on their way to the early testers. These are clos...
Hardware Finalization Goals
The main goal right now is to finalize the hardware We have some evaluation units that are waiting for keypads before they go out. We've been tweakin...
Keypad 2
Our prototype keypad mold arrived and we made some test parts, and also learned a few things about handling silicone. Some pics of the mold: [Top Su...
Keypad
Got some samples in today for the production keypad buttons. We went with dome contacts. These will be positioned over gold plated fingers on the main...
GUI, EE and SW Improvements
We've been dialing a lot of things in on the motherboard. The biggest noticeable change is the GUI. It looks much more polished now. We're almost read...
Daughter Boards
What's an electronics project without an attempt at modularity? As part of our project goals, we want a phone that can be easily modified and expanded...
Capacitive Button Panel
[] We wanted to see if it was possible to eliminate the physical buttons on the front of the phone by using a capacitive button panel. It has a few ...
WiPhone Prototype 2 Assembly Video
We have all the components on hand, and wanted to post an assembly video showing how the mechanical parts of the phone go together. It's already a pre...
GUI Screenshots
note: these screenshots are really old at this point. have a look at the gallery for some more up to date ones. Some shots of the current state of th...
LCD Driver Benchmarking
We recognize a few universal truths: Biological life... errr... finds a way. Every software program expands until it can check email, or dies trying. ...
Completed Alpha WiPhone
The phone is assembled and working. It can make and receive calls. It runs off battery power and charges by the USB port. The LCD and buttons control ...
Populated WiPhone Motherboard
Now with wires and little square things all over it: [Populated WiPhone Motherboard] ...
WiPhone Motherboard
The alpha motherboard arrived. Here's some quick shots of the front/back + one with the LCD mounted just for fun: [WiPhone Motherboard] ...
SN7326 Keypad
This is a simple keypad to test the SN7326 I2C keypad controller in the 25 button configuration we wanted for the WiPhone. Posting in the hopes it mig...
Keypads
We have a bunch of cheap phones we've been tearing apart, and wanted to post a some pics. Particularly, we've been looking to see how they make the bu...
WM8750BL Audio Codec Dev Board
We wanted to publish the dev board we made for the WM8750BL audio codec IC. Design files: 20180702 - audio codec board Datasheet: WM8750BL_v4.1-11316...
Audio Codecs
What is an audio codec? A: it's a file format B: it's an encryption method C: it's a format converter D: it's a little wizard that lives in 3.5mm hol...
System Overview
The WiPhone is composed of a few different functional areas as shown in the block diagram down at the bottom. For debugging, initially separate PCBs w...