There will never be a hacker-friendly mobile
phone for instance.
Component level repair on those is impossible, even though I have the
Why? OK, I'd not want to work on the RF side (too many risks of sending
out spurious signals), but what is the prroblem, say, with replacing
compoentns in the control circuit. They look like normal SMDs.
A 400+ pin MCU/DSP in a micro BGA package, and no accessible lead
whatsoever.
No way of attaching a scope or logic analyzer.
And they are a pain to realign and resolder if you have to replace them.
Definitly not hackerfriendly.
If they were, somebody would have made a RISC PC with one.
Regards, Jos