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Finnish modder Jani Pönkkö scores major geeks points, both for holding onto a 25-year-old cellphone and for breathing new life into the mobile monstrosity by modding it into an HTPC.
Pönkkö started off with the handset, installing LEDs, a WiFi card, a soundcard, a speaker, and the crème de la crème - a 128 x 182 OLED display.
Inside the briefcase-sized Mobira Talkman's base, Pönkkö managed to cram a 3.5-inch form factor motherboard, Intel T5500 Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of DDR2 notebook memory, and a 32GB SSD. The modded cellphone also boasts a DVI port and USB hub.
Check out the full worklog and video here.
Image Credit: metku.net
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[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/paul_lilly
[2] http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/man-turns-luggable-25-year-old-cellphone-into-oled-packing-htpc/
[3] http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/mobira-dataman/index_eng
[4] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/8_foot_tall_case_mod_would_look_great_your_next_steampunk_lan_party
[5] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/hardware_hacker_makes_commodore_64_laptop
[6] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/the_coolest_ssd_mod_ever
[7] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/cellphone_0
[8] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/htpc
[9] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/mobile
[10] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/modding
[11] http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/mods
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