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What about all these raspberry pi hats with cell modems? Are they missing anything like usable IMEI numbers or proprietary stuff? What's stopping an RPi compute module 3G/4G/5G DIY linux phone?

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The battery life would suck? It's not about whether you can build a phone, it's about whether you can build a decent phone.

Battery life is probably awful, mainly.

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