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Sapient Donkey

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9. Nice. I expect we'll see more phones with these built-in sensors in the future.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #8)

Fri Aug 14, 2020, 05:24 PM

Aug 2020

I couldn't imagine it adding much more to the total cost of the phone. A few years back I built one on a breadboard for fun, and I think for all the components I paid less than $10. That included the cost of the microprocessor too.

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