Move Over, iPhone
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| Yes, it's a linux device, and no, there is no way to lock it.
| Furthermore, you will likely never be able to purchase it from your
| local wireless carrier for pennies, along with a two-year commitment.
| When people are looking for carriers and handset makers to break open
| that walled garden, what they're really looking for is for mobile
| devices to be more like PCs (install whatever you want on it, use
| it the way you'd like to, support it yourself), and for the
| wireless data connection to be more like the internet (flat-rate,
| all-you-can-eat, don't mess with my packets). These are market
| concepts which are rather foreign to the carriers whose
| networks we depend on.
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http://www.ianbell.com/2007/05/30/move-over-iphone/
My ideal laptop has possibly just arrived
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| Other ports include an SD card slot and VGA out. There's also a
| CompactFlash slot under the battery so you can expand memory there.
| Onboard RAM is 256MB. Given the platform is running a tweaked Linux
| this shouldn't (hopefully) be a problem.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39953
Related:
Forget iPhone, hail OpenMoko, the true revolution
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| ...I would rather wait for OpenMoko to become available for purchase
| than shell out high bucks for iPhone. Just like with any Apple
| product, it is like an awesome looking golden cage. I always
| preferred freedom to control my own digital devices than to be
| mostly dependent on one vendor for everything.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/forget_iphone_hail_openmoko_the_true_revolution
Open Phones with Open Moko
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| While the hardware may be similar, the strategy is a complete
| reversal of Apple's closed platform and proprietary hardware.
| OpenMoko is an open Linux-based mobile application development
| platform that's designed to help operators and developers build
| innovative applications on top of a basic phone platform.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_phone/
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