[27-01-2007] An interesting Linux based mobile phone development platform.
I'm not all that enamoured of devices of the Swiss Army kitchen sink variety (though it would be useful if my Razr phone had a thingie for getting boy scouts out of horses hooves). However, if you want to make one of those, then you need look no further than OpenMoko.
OpenMoko is a Linux based mobile phone development platform. It runs on an FIC neo1973 phone which has a large VGA touch screen and built in GPS. The basic phone does little but make calls and send text messages, but it's open hardware and developers have access to all functions - including the GPS through the OpenMoko development system. That's a very different philosophy from Apple's completely closed iPhone, which will only allow Apple and hostile hackers to get into it.
Expect some really interesting and innovative applications to come out on this phone in the not too distant future.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_phone/
OpenMoko is a Linux based mobile phone development platform. It runs on an FIC neo1973 phone which has a large VGA touch screen and built in GPS. The basic phone does little but make calls and send text messages, but it's open hardware and developers have access to all functions - including the GPS through the OpenMoko development system. That's a very different philosophy from Apple's completely closed iPhone, which will only allow Apple and hostile hackers to get into it.
Expect some really interesting and innovative applications to come out on this phone in the not too distant future.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_phone/