Re: [9fans] more little hardware

["hugh@mimosa.com" <hugh@mimosa.com>]

On Mar 16, 7:40 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/>

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.

Android and OpenMoko are phones are both open for the customer.  The
crucial difference is that the customer of Android is not the end-user
but the customer for the OpenMoko is.

Before buying one, have a look at the community to see if it is alive
enough.