OpenMoko: Not as sexy as the iPhone, but it’s a Linux phone
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The cellphone market might know another disruption besides the Apple iPhone, and that disruption has a (now) well-known name — open source. At the CES, OpenMoko unveiled its Linux-based mobile application development platform that is designed to help operators and developers build new applications on top of a basic phone platform.
The platform is the FIC neo1973. The Linux phone integrates a touch-sensitive screen, a built-in GPS, and some GSM/GPRS connectivity. Not the best, and we expected it to include some WiFi capabilities. Its functionalities are also quite limited. The basic make and receive phone call functions are enable, the send text messages too, but that’s it. Users have to tweak their phone with applications downloaded from the Internet, just like for any Linux distributions for computers.
The FIC is $150 cheaper than the iPhone. It would be interesting to see how receptive the market would be.
Jan 15, 2007 | By Nuno
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