From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df11003170808n36392934q9cd3d250fcf69890@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad2530fe-813b-4204-8598-de13e3167646@d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:35 AM, hugh@mimosa.com <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 7:40Â pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Any thought as to using the OpenMoko as a phone platform?
>>
>> vapor. That thing was pure vapor from start to end.
>
>
> No, it was not vapour. You can buy it here, for example (a place that
> also sells the Ben Nanonote):
> <http://hackable-devices.com/products/product/freerunner-gta02/>
Yep, I guess it's buyable now, where for the 3 or so years I kept
trying to buy it it was always "oh, hang on, we're not quite ready
yet".
I'm sticking with my characterization.
>
> There are definite cracks in the project. As far as I can tell it
> isn't making forward progress. For example, the hardware only
> supports 3 bands, not the 4 bands they intended. The software has had
> shaky development (I don't know its current status). But the software
> doesn't matter if you plan on putting your own on.
>
> The hardware is almost open, last I heard. They got snookered by a
> component provider that promised open but didn't actually deliver.
Doesn't sound that useful to me.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-16 10:34 maht
2010-03-16 14:54 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 16:44 ` John Floren
2010-03-16 16:17 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 19:35 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-16 19:46 ` John Floren
2010-03-17 4:03 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-17 4:50 ` ron minnich
2010-03-17 14:38 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-18 6:59 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-18 8:04 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-18 9:24 ` Gabriel Díaz
2010-03-18 14:36 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-18 15:42 ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-24 22:28 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-28 14:33 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-18 12:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-18 14:27 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-16 21:02 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-16 23:38 ` ron minnich
2010-03-16 23:47 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-17 9:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-03-17 14:02 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-17 9:35 ` hugh
2010-03-17 15:08 ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-03-17 2:05 ` David Arnold
2010-03-17 11:11 ` maht
2010-03-17 13:57 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-17 18:06 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-17 19:13 ` John Floren
2010-03-17 19:49 ` Axel Belinfante
2010-03-17 19:57 ` Axel Belinfante
2010-03-17 20:11 ` John Floren
2010-03-18 6:53 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-16 16:53 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 17:10 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 16:33 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 18:20 ` ron minnich
2010-03-16 19:24 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 17:12 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 17:52 Jonas Amoson
2010-03-16 17:24 ` blstuart
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