iPhone, ShmyPhone! The $300 Linux Powered Phone
Posted in Gadgets by Dan at 12:58 pm
This post was published 2 years 4 months 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.OpenMoko is a $300 phone that packs the Linux kernel inside and is not locked to a specific network. Although it shares a similar touch screen with the iPhone, that is where the similarities end. This baby is ready to be loaded with any number of open-source software applications.
This development model sports a 2.8″ VGA touch screen, a micro SD card slot, a USB port and 2.5G GSM modem. The next version will also include wi-fi, 3-D motion sensors and added graphics accelerators. When everything is all said and done the OpenMoko will be $450 and available in finished form in October.
300$ or 450$ make up your mind….
And I’m always in the Openmoko channel and I doubt that until release date,more than the basic functions won’t work.Which is why I personally won’t buy one until the successor of the Neo1973 coems on the market,I don’t want to pay 450$ for a test product.
why did they have to make the thing so damn ugly?
It looks like a fisher price “my first big boy phone”. Although I do love the idea, this may be just enough to sway me away from all the phones I currently own. Shit the ability alone to write my own software or tweak the existing is enough to make me go “hmmmmm”.
This version (The $300 one) is a dev phone. There haven’t really been any releases about the industrial engineering or features of the first release version(The $450 one).
Sounds good for anyone tired of iPhone hype who wants a nice mobile development platform. As soon as I can, I’ll switch to a GSM phone and maybe even get one of these. Verizon has definitely been less than ideal.