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Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:28:06 +0000

$100 less than an unlocked iPhone that is, about $500. I found out further that right now it can’t do much either, it’s only potentially a smart phone as it only has dialing and contacts. However, it has a lot of potential - and you could write the apps for it.

Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:19:23 +0000

Nice! I’ll have to look into it.

Comment on “Now that Vista is now the only Windows you can buy preinstalled…” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:15:59 +0000

Don’t laugh too hard, a lot of people are doing just that.

Comment on “Now that Vista is now the only Windows you can buy preinstalled…” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:30:17 +0000

Then they run Windows XP? Wrong answer.

Comment on “Are the ice caps melting?” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:29:22 +0000

“But, it was hot today, and I voted for Al Gore!”

Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:50 +0000

Researching it, OpenMoko is about $100 less than the iPhone and in the US market at least has over a dozen different carriers it can be used with.

Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:05:16 +0000

True, though a jailbroken iPhone can run a pretty good complement of *nix programs too, even a C compiler, if you’d actually want to do development on a 400 MHz ARM rather than your computer’s CPU. I’m fairly certain one can do ssh.

Openmoko definitely is a Good Idea, and it looks like the implementation is going to be good too, at least in theory. (I haven’t seen it in action of course!) If it were out and I wanted to have a cell phone, it would definitely be one of the few phones that would interest me besides the iPhone, and in some ways would interest me much more. Plus the carrier deal couldn’t be nearly as bad as the iPhone’s is, or the unlocked model as expensive, where available.

Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:53:56 +0000

I don’t know whether that’ll be sufficient for me to get another cell phone, but it’s something I’ll seriously look at. If I can get it to run a few standard Linux programs, then it’ll be pretty close to perfect for my purposes. It wouldn’t take very many to top every other cell phone or organizer out there, the iPhone included.

Comment on “Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:02:42 +0000

One of the developers of this hangs out on a Mac channel, interestingly enough, though he does a lot of testing in a Linux VM, so I heard about it some time ago. It looks pretty exciting, IIRC, it even uses X11.

Comment on “Making vinyl records the old-fashioned way” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:29:24 +0000

Hm, maybe we should play it backward and see if there’s a secret message?

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Ah, maybe not.