[guardian-dev] IOIO board for Android

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote:

> On 11.04.2011 06:14, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> This looks like something we might want for our hardware bench, its a
>> hardware board that talks to the Android debugging.  One possible  
>> idea
>> is a highspeed phone dump before hitting the panic button, then you
>> could swallow the SD card and "retrieve" it later. ;)
>
> I don't see the benefit over one of the numerous backup tools  
> available?
>
> I agree that something like a panic button that syncs the latest  
> changes
> to a safe place (possibly online, or the SD card) and wipes the phone
> would be nice to have. The market is full with apps that remotely  
> track
> and kill the phone, but 99% use proprietary servers - apart from
> GTalkSMS, which is quite nice, but not exactly what I am looking for.


The point here would be that the backup happens in your pocket  
regardless of network connectivity and the backup would be stored in a  
microSD card that can be very easily removed and stashed.  Or with a  
little electronics work, the whole IOIO board and microSD card could  
be made to fit in a tiny package, so it could be stashed intact.

If you just shot a bunch of important photos and video, then got  
detained, a network backup would be far too slow to consider useful.

.hc

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