It may not have all the bells and whistles as a brand new iPhone, or even look particularly pretty, but if all you want a phone for is to make calls and send texts, why not build your own? Created by ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...