From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1268773368.1474.0.camel@Gethsarl> <13426df11003161638red0bb67i5332b72b37af702a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:33 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df11003170808n36392934q9cd3d250fcf69890@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware Topicbox-Message-UUID: ebdd702e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:35 AM, hugh@mimosa.com wrote: > On Mar 16, 7:40=C2=A0pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Kelly wr= ote: >> > 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. =A0You can buy it here, for example (a place that > also sells the Ben Nanonote): > 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. =A0As far as I can tell it > isn't making forward progress. =A0For example, the hardware only > supports 3 bands, not the 4 bands they intended. =A0The software has had > shaky development (I don't know its current status). =A0But the software > doesn't matter if you plan on putting your own on. > > The hardware is almost open, last I heard. =A0They got snookered by a > component provider that promised open but didn't actually deliver. Doesn't sound that useful to me. ron