OpenMoko - iPhone killer?

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rgray

Discussion Starter · Jul 13, 2007

Could the OpenMoko be an iPhone killer?

Forget iPhone said:
It is something that follows a paradigm painfully different from the one of Apple, pretty much completely opposite of it actually. It is a phone which rivals Apple's iPhone as a technological concept and is yet based on completely open technologies, fully extensible by anyone and fully under control of its user.

Forget iPhone, hail OpenMoko, the true revolution | Libervis.com
Much as I am something of an Apple fanboy, I find this very interesting - completely open, so one should be able to SIM card it anywhere.... More later.

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guytoronto

· #2 · Jul 13, 2007

Can't really be an iPhone killer if it isn't ready for the mainstream. The company is only selling a developer's preview right now.

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rgray

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 13, 2007 (Edited)

I just got off the phone from talking to these guys. Right now, it is a 'developer' phone but should go public in October. Just pop the GSM SIM card out of your current phone and into the OpenMoko and you are good to go. Does WiFi, don't know about Edge but the I personally don't care about that. Remains to be seen what developers can produce. I'm keeping an eye on this and if I can't get an iPhone (cracked as a phone w/WiFi or legit) by October I may well go this way. It will be interesting to see how it deals with music and video but the screen resolution is better than iPhone......

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rgray

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jul 13, 2007

guytoronto said:
Can't really be an iPhone killer if it isn't ready for the mainstream. The company is only selling a developer's preview right now.

It would be hard to say the an iPhone is 'ready for mainstream' here in Canada either...

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dibenga

· #5 · Jul 13, 2007

like the idea of an opensource phone, but it looks like a bad palm pilot ripoff.

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Beej

· #6 · Jul 13, 2007

With that design, the screen should be bigger, but the idea sounds good. I'd worry about hackability.

Does anyone with knowledge of how the technology (network and software) works have any comments? Sometimes good ideas make no sense in application. Sometimes.

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