Dubya tee bee OpenMoko
Scythe
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
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<div class="IPBDescription">Open source mobile phone.</div><a href="http://www.openmoko.com/" target="_blank">http://www.openmoko.com/</a>
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->End users are still in for a bit of a wait, but tinkerers, devs, and 1337 hax0rz should soon be able to get their hands on FIC's Linux-based Neo1973 handset. The device, getting thrown together courtesy of the OpenMoko project with the goal of open-sourcing both the phone and the platform, will drop first in $200 "Hacker's Lunchbox" trim (for the aforementioned hackers) late this month featuring a seemingly bombproof plastic box to hold your GPLed bundle of joy and its dev tools. This fall -- September, if OpenMoko's prediction holds up -- the retail version will follow on for $350 with a variety of bundled accessories (though not the pictured car mount, which'll run an extra $75), faster processor, and possibly a cam or integrated WiFi. Why not both, FIC? Go crazy!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure it's pricy, but holy hell I want this phone provided the final version has wifi and a camera. It's the complete opposite of the iPhone, a totally open platform for you to hack apart however you want.
640x480 screen? Scummvm? Hell yes. Nethack? Hell yes. Easy hackability for robotics project integration? Very hell yes.
--Scythe--
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->End users are still in for a bit of a wait, but tinkerers, devs, and 1337 hax0rz should soon be able to get their hands on FIC's Linux-based Neo1973 handset. The device, getting thrown together courtesy of the OpenMoko project with the goal of open-sourcing both the phone and the platform, will drop first in $200 "Hacker's Lunchbox" trim (for the aforementioned hackers) late this month featuring a seemingly bombproof plastic box to hold your GPLed bundle of joy and its dev tools. This fall -- September, if OpenMoko's prediction holds up -- the retail version will follow on for $350 with a variety of bundled accessories (though not the pictured car mount, which'll run an extra $75), faster processor, and possibly a cam or integrated WiFi. Why not both, FIC? Go crazy!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure it's pricy, but holy hell I want this phone provided the final version has wifi and a camera. It's the complete opposite of the iPhone, a totally open platform for you to hack apart however you want.
640x480 screen? Scummvm? Hell yes. Nethack? Hell yes. Easy hackability for robotics project integration? Very hell yes.
--Scythe--
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This one?
I'm still boggling at the possibilities. If it's got a camera, GPS and mobile phone you could quite easily write a serial interface to an atmel microprocessor, chuck in some h-bridges and a few sensors and have yourself a totally kick-arse remote control robot. Woot.
--Scythe--
How long until the first bluetooth entry virus is planted for stalkers?
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about two years ago