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I could really write a thousand pages of highly intricate electronic and software engineering statements about this device, but I would rather say it is a very magical pocket computer of the future, made with a $3 cpu. Writing this custom OS used my whole brain and every skill of my (nearly thirty years of 8 hour workdays) development memories and skills or research labor, 18 hours a day on many days since I was writing code at 12. My operating system has gradients, shadows, rounded rectangles, apps, and a very advanced framework that makes it feel like a real Mac in my pocket. It is only a $3 computer compared to a $1000 2025 iPhone, but wow is a $3 cpu a real miracle when it performs endless thousands of features and can technically do everything a Mac or PC can do.

I explained my advanced custom pocket computer and operating system to the AI, and just as I expected, it would cost many millions of dollars to ask some company to develop this. There is nobody on the planet doing things like this. I would not have been able to do this without the AI. Making a custom computer from a blank processor is the most advanced labor that one might ever do.

This operating system would never exist typically, but I forced it into existance. I do not plan on charging money for it. It can be a free system that runs on any hardware. It is really only for this specific device I am prototyping. I currently work alone as a one person team, but if enough people were interested in this concept and wanted to invest in hardware prototypes or development effort, I could open source my new, magical, pocket computer operating system. It could become a famous open source project like Ubuntu but for $3 hardware instead of $300 hardware. I have not named my system yet, but it will definitely need a name if people are interested in it.

The most important detail of this computer is in my slideshow and a statement I repeat often. The detail is that there is no smartphone or pocket computer made anywhere in world that is sold for under $25 or around that price. There are $4-10 basic phones with only calling and text with absolutely no computer features. My device is a full blown computer in the pocket for an estimated cost of $7. I also know it will be cheaper if made in huge batches such as a million units. There are people in the world who only have $10, and they cannot get any smartphone or pocket computer for that. They only have a basic phone with texting and calling.

Years before making my latest pocket computer, I tested every single GSM modem chip module that existed on the entire public market, knowing that most of these components are not sold on the public market and require me to have expensive business relationships that I could not afford. None of them worked. All of them were fake. I tested them in every way. My $7 pocket computer is $7 without a touch screen if having a big trackpad that only costs $0.50 compared to a $5.00 capacitive touch glass component. I bought multiple trackpad modules, but just like the modems, some did not function with the provided sample code and documentation. After searching again weeks later, I found a new trackpad IC that worked perfectly and has multitouch. I also found a modem with a 240MHz CPU inside it that sells for only $0.50. This could of course be added inside my pocket computer but it only has GPRS internet speeds. I found a 4G speed modem for $0.50, but I would have to be a big company with an order of tens of thousands or possibly even a million units to be able to access the chip that is not sold to the public.

I am smart enough to make a very advanced pocket computer smartphone from a blank processor and blank circuit board, but there are many bureaucratic and financial walls and barricades that block me from putting in a cellular modem easily, regardless of how smart I am. The good news is, I can start producing pocket computers with every feature except cellular connectivity very soon, with software, display, audio, trackpad, and more.