He turned a $20 used BlackBerry into a pocket Claude Code terminal instead of the $600 Minimal Phone 2
Signalman23 · x · 2026-11-03
A developer compared two pocket-coding options: the Minimal Phone 2 starts at $600, while a used BlackBerry Bold costs $20-40. By reverse engineering the old phone, he got a physical keyboard, SSH, voice recognition for prompting, and Claude Code running in his pocket — a DIY alternative for coding from anywhere on real hardware keys.
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