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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  6. $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. 😉

  7. That’s probably just what I’d do, too. 🙂 The price sounds about right, for a good phone without a contract.

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