Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Fri, 06 Jun: > Ira Abramov wrote: >> >> In fact, I would not be >> surprised if they take over the Symbian market within a year or two as >> well. the iPhone will survive, but I think OpenMoko is too slow and >> heavy to stay afloat in the coming flood. >> >> > We are trying to get someone from Google to talk about Android during > August Penguin, but my main concern with it is that, at least so far, it > appears like it will not be very open. It is an open platform, in the > sense that anyone can write software for it. This is a great improvement > over other phones, and definitely an iPhone killer, but it is not > sufficient reason for me to forgo my OpneMoko hopes.
well, I saw the vids and didn't dive further into it. it seems like if you stick to apps that indeed it's limiting and well behaved, as much as it would be to write an app to any J2ME phone I guess, but since Android IS GNU/Linux below it will have to come with sources and therefore allow circumvantion and reinvention of the OS for any phone that runs it, am I wrong? The only difference is that here you can't freely buy a reference hardware platform (with official support) like with OpenMoko, but need to improvise one yourself. Still, you have full access to all the firmware (like openmoko) on a richer platform (3.5G and 4G phones, no doubt). with OpenMoko you stay "stuck" with barely GPRS, no multitouch and other features that are quickly becoming the standard for 2009 smartphones. > > Also, bear in mind that all indications show that OpenMoko phones WILL > be able to run Android. >> http://code.google.com/android/ yes, but how will they compete with the rest? just the hardware hackers? a small niche indeed. -- Bugfix release Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
