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SmolPhone Device

At a glance the SmolPhone Device consists of a display, a keypad, a board with a microcontroller, and a LTE-M modem.

The display is a Sharp memory LCD LS027B7DH01. This is a 400x240 monochrome reflexive LCD with very low energy consumption. The keypad is a TCA8418 50-key matrix. The board is a PICO2-XXL. It features a RP2350B which includes two 150 MHz ARM Cortex-M33, 520 kB of memory, 16 MB of flash storage, and a micro SD-card slot. The LTE-M modem is a nRF9151 from Nordic Semiconductor. The modem provides a 64 MHz ARM Cortex-M33 processor, 256 kB of memory, and 1 MB of flash storage for the user.

The Figure 1 provides a high-level overview of how these components are connected to each other. The Figure 2 shows a photo of the current device.

Image that shows that the display, the keyboard, and the LTE-M modem are connected to the microcontroller board.

Figure 1: Device overview.

Photo of the SmolPhone device.

Figure 2: The SmolPhone device.