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Can't wait for one that'll work on Android so I can maybe root some otherwise useless old phones
What would you use the old phones for out of curiosity?
I'm not the person you replied to, but I would love to have more ARM hardware for running tests on. A lot of what I write needs to be separately tested on each architecture.