On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:35 AM, h...@mimosa.com <h...@mimosa.com> wrote: > On Mar 16, 7:40Â pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Any thought as to using the OpenMoko as a phone platform? >> >> vapor. That thing was pure vapor from start to end. > > > No, it was not vapour. You can buy it here, for example (a place that > also sells the Ben Nanonote): > <http://hackable-devices.com/products/product/freerunner-gta02/>
Yep, I guess it's buyable now, where for the 3 or so years I kept trying to buy it it was always "oh, hang on, we're not quite ready yet". I'm sticking with my characterization. > > There are definite cracks in the project. As far as I can tell it > isn't making forward progress. For example, the hardware only > supports 3 bands, not the 4 bands they intended. The software has had > shaky development (I don't know its current status). But the software > doesn't matter if you plan on putting your own on. > > The hardware is almost open, last I heard. They got snookered by a > component provider that promised open but didn't actually deliver. Doesn't sound that useful to me. ron
