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This would be a lot cooler...This would be a lot cooler...Posted Apr 19, 2007 22:14 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)Parent article: The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
If one could actually _buy_ one of those OpenMoko phones. Or if the Maemo had a GSM chip. Or if this project had a catchy name. :-]
But hey, I'm just a spoiled generation X:er who wants everything _now_. Hopefully, GMEI will rock once it actually starts existing!
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This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 19, 2007 23:28 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] The GNOME Mobile Platform is already out there on shipping devices. The Nokia N770/800 web tablet, the Vernier LabQuest, and devices produced by plenty of others who were not involved in our founding announcement.
This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 20, 2007 18:57 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link] Right, I didn't mean to slam the platform, I was lamenting the fact that I can't buy a Linux cellphone, even though I have money to burn.
I can't help but feel frustrated by how painfully close to awesome the Nokia Maemo/N800 is. Not including a cell chip and keeping a few lines of random code secret moves it from perfect to *bleh*. The prorietary code should be possible to replace, but it such a completely pointless thing to do that it makes me distrustful regarding the cluefulness of the people at the top, and quite frankly, forcing the community to jump through those kinds of hoops is exactly the kind of thing that makes a budding community ask itself why should I bother?
This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 26, 2007 5:59 UTC (Thu) by carlistixx (guest, #40102) [Link] It doesn't run GNOME but it's certainly a "Linux cellphone".
This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 26, 2007 6:13 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Not that anyone (least of all Trolltech) would recommend it for production use. :-)
This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 20, 2007 8:52 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] The first versions of the OpenMoko phone should be available soon:http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-Januar...
The second generation, for the mass marked should be available in september. That's not too far out.
This would be a lot cooler... Posted Apr 20, 2007 12:42 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] This is _realy_ something I've been waiting for for a very long time.
I always thought PDAs were cool.
But I always thought that it's stupid that one isn't the other and if they were they were both very expensive and very restrictive.
OpenMoko looks to solve that problem for me quite well.
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