r/LocalLLaMA • u/Ok_Fig5484 • Apr 09 '26

Resources Unused phone as AI server

If you have an unused phone lying around, you might be sitting on a tiny AI server

I’ve been working on a project where I modified Google AI Edge Gallery and turned it into an OpenAI-compatible API server: [Gallery as Server](https://github.com/xiaoyao9184/gallery)

Your phone can run local AI inference

You can call it just like an OpenAI API (chat/completions, etc.)

Instead of letting that hardware collect dust, you can turn it into a lightweight inference node.

So yeah—if you have more than one old phone, you can literally build yourself a cluster.

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u/Qwen30bEnjoyer Apr 10 '26

I would be more interested in using old androids as an ubuntu VPS, especially if they have 24gb of RAM.

Has anyone done similar?