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echo: osdebate
to: Geo
from: Adam
date: 2006-11-12 10:08:36
subject: Re: A smartphone 4 Tony

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Ad"  wrote in message
> news:4551b19f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> "THERE HAVE BEEN a lot of phones claiming to be 'Linux
phones' and those
>> that do run a Linux kernel, but they all miss the point of Linux: to be
>> open. FIC is about to change that in a big way with a truly open phone,
>> the OpenMoko.
>
> Someone has been listening and watching. This is the first of the consumer
> devices that can take advantage of the geek squad effect. Keep an eye on
> this to see if a whole collection of addons and mods appear.
>
> Geo.
>
>
Yup. It's also changing the mobifone ecosystem.  Now it's "make you
h/w, create some drivers, port the std OS & .....decide which apps you
want as Std & set up a update repository.

Adam

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