On Aug 10, 6:58 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> China's iClone
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> | The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I'd spent months
> | tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple's iPhone, down to the slick
> | no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the
> | iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not
> | just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the
> | iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers.
> `----
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> http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/e7e48a137b144110vgnvcm1000004...
>
> Runs Linux, but nobody really knows or counts it.
>
> Related:
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> IPhone Contract Is Long and Legally Murky
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> | The bad news: The iPhone contract may not be the last word in overly long and
> | complex user agreements. Terms-of-service contracts promise to grow even more
> | dense, legal experts warn, making them even more difficult to understand than
> | they already are.
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> http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2007/07/iphone_contract
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> iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
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> | This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
> | project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
> | are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
> | framework to go with it.
> `----
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> http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
>
> OpenMoko Neo1973 - an open source Linux based iPhone killer in the making ?
>
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/07/openmoko-neo1973-open-source-li...
it may be running some variation on LINUX, but in the DISCOVER
article, it featured a Windows Logo as one of the icons...???
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