| Jeff Abrahamson on 4 Apr 2008 13:17:45 -0700 |
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:05:36PM -0400, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> If you want a phone that does what you want and lets you have
> control, get an OpenMoko. Buying Apple's phone is a $300
> endorsement of their existing practice of doing everything possible
> to lock you out, regardless of whether or not you ultimately force
> it to run Linux.
The OpenMoko site gives the impression that there is no consumer
product, only some hardware designs if someone wants to build
hardware. The wikipedia article also suggests that there was a
limited developer release of some hardware and little else. Maybe
this will be something some day, but it's apparently not here yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMoko
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Jeff
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