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He should really consider smoothing it out a bit and selling it as a beginners' kit somewhere.

I would love to give my little nephew something like this where he would have to assemble all the separate parts and do some basic Linux configuration. Perhaps Adafruit could help him out with that?

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Perhaps Adafruit could help him out with that?

That is very likely. Adafruit just previewed a cellphone platform called Fona, but its still in development.

correct, stay tuned!

Any source on that? Searching for Adafruit Fona only gives this thread and some junk results.

still finishing the final board layout (it's not out yet!) https://plus.google.com/112526208786662512291/posts/2qmVHpkn... :)

will there be one with a 3G modem? GPRS is so slow.

It mentions no soldering is required, but there's bound to be some tricky bits involved.

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