So Long Openmoko
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Okay, perhaps so long is a bit harsh. I mean, lots of companies have done layoffs recently, so it would make sense that Openmoko is among them. So what is happening to the Freerunner then? Well, that is up to, er, US! Yup, the phone is essentially being turned over to the community.
Realizing that the Freerunner is Android compatible, I can see hobbyists getting pretty excited about the prospect of having more power with themselves behind the product.
Yet with all of this said, 99.9 of the world still has zero idea of what Freerunner is or why Openmoko is selling it to consumers as none of the major carriers here in the States are offering it? Besides, at $400, I am failing to see the advantage outside of it benefiting the FoSS crowd.
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Bruce Wagner
June 4th, 2009
at 1:30pm
Is there an open source OS phone available that works with any of the major USA carriers… like MetroPCS, etc…?
Also, do you think that someone (some FOSS development group) will create an open source smartphone OS that’s iPhone app compatible… In other words, can run iPhone apps… Now THAT would be cool.
And that would be an iPhone killer…