Posted Friday 26th October 2007 22:07 GMT
The question should be, what's the price point where a Linux hacker will buy a Linux phone? IIRC, the Green Phone cost $600, while my Motorola Razor cost about $100. Guess which I bought.
A cheap development environment may be in order. What about a big ugly prototype box thing instead? A development environment is just that: for developing, not for having the caché of having a Linux phone.
Posted Friday 26th October 2007 22:07 GMT
What a shame for it certainly had potential !
But I suppose with one point four million "God Phones" now out in the wild with approximately a quarter of million now free in operation outside in the real world as opposed to those idiotic and stupid enough to sign up with AT&T the spying phone companies very questionable twenty four month with a USD$11-00 a month kick back to Apple suck your wallet dry contract !(in some countries that type of contract is very very illegal depending on Corporate Governance and Truth in Advertising Laws but that be another story)
Oh well who indeed needs or wants to use a god phone on Apple's odd terms anyway !
Let us hope the remaining Open Source unit does well against the evil empire !
Posted Friday 26th October 2007 22:39 GMT
a friend of a friend bought an openmoko and out of the box the thing won't even boot! I think if you download the latest image you can just about make some sort of voice or data call, but the screen shots on their website are just wishful thinking. Therefore, Trolltech must know something we dont, or, already have their own software release ready!
Posted Saturday 27th October 2007 16:48 GMT
If it hadn't been for the price. Not that I'm a cheapskate or anything but I just don't have that kind of money to spend on a phone.
Posted Monday 29th October 2007 01:19 GMT
I might be wrong, but do mobile companies have any control over which devices connect, provided they are appropriately approved and have an IMEI. They can choose which devices to subsidise, but that's another story.
Plus, most phones are dual-core - the GSM stuff runs on a different CPU to the user interface.
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