YOUR OLD ANDROID PHONE IS A FREE AI VISION SERVER AND YOU DON’T KNOW IT one dev built an app that turns any android into a local openai-compatible LLM server with vision support, analyzes camera feeds entirely on-device, no cloud, no subscriptions, nothing leaves your network you already own... the hardware, it’s just sitting in a drawer full breakdown below ↓show more

saved, gonna dig out my old pixel

@leopardracer wait, so my old phone can do all this?! didn't realize it had so much potential just sitting in a drawer. definitely gonna check this out!

Brilliant hardware reuse idea!

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Love this. I'm building litertlm-kmp — a Kotlin Multiplatform wrapper over LiteRT-LM running Gemma 4 (incl. vision) fully on-device on Android. On-device multimodal on commodity Android is far more viable than people think. Exactly this thesis.

interesting point

i need this home assistant from myself like on these article

the drawer full of old androids finally has a purpose about time someone made that graveyard useful

an old android as a local openai-compatible vision server, on-device, nothing leaving the network — this is the kind of reuse that should be the default

hardware in your drawer doing real work

drawer phones became edge servers

the app looks pretty cool

I wanted to read the article in full

I always knew my old Android would come in handy for something time has come lol

this is genius,drawer phone finally usefull Bookmarked

hardware in the drawer quietly turning into local ai infra is pretty cool

Thanks for honesty and detailed presentation

huh it’s has some value😅

I think my old smartphone will just die from such a task)

抽屉里的老手机突然有工作了

Nice one

On-device vision with no cloud, no subscription, nothing leaves the network. That's the kind of project that makes local AI click for people who've only used APIs. The hardware's already sitting in a drawer — just needs the software to make it useful.

Everyone has an old Android sitting in a drawer and had no idea it was already a vision server 👀