I have a T-Mobie G1 (bought in the states) and am pretty happy with it. It is pure Linux in its core, has an SDK for application development and the whole source is available (http://source.android.com/). I am not too interested on GPS applications or navigation but it has a pretty good GPS (tough it eats the battery horribly) and the Google Maps support is pretty good. There is also a talk given by Gilad Ben-Yoseff (anyone know if the slides of the presentation are available somewhere?) and the documentation for development is pretty good.
Hebrew support is fine, you just install the fonts and its there (gilad also has a post about this) and someone wrote an application called "hebkeys" that i havent tested but gives you a virtual keyboard on screen for hebrew typing. It has full QWERTY keyboard which is pretty comfortable for typing and the screen is big enough for surfing and ssh'ing (it is a bit smaler than an iphone's screen, but you have the keyboard separated from it). good luck on your quest, Shay On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with > Linux and GPS. > > Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it > is dying for several reasons: > * their's latests phone model Freerunner has audio issues > * It has weak connectivity (GPRS) > * There is no quality applications for it (like GPS turn-by-turn > navigation) due to chicken-egg problem and lack of DRM. > > This makes me look into direction of Android G1. It is too young to > have elaborated applications support, but it already has > http://www.andnav.org/ that uses OpenStreetMap data. > > Currently there is no coverage for Israel though: > http://www.andnav.org/images/stories/news/coverage/ > > Do anybody knows more about andnav2 and Israel support? > > Also, do any of the Israeli phone carriers plan to import Android-based > phones? > > -- > Arie > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
