Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@goldelico.com> write: > So what are your dreams with respect to open mobile handhelds? > What would you like as future hardware? What to see in software > distros? Anything else? What missing piece are you waiting for?
My dream is this: That we can convince some big manufacturer of Android phones to "support" SHR or Maemo or MER on some of their obsolete handheld phones. Surely Samsung, for example, must have some remaining stock of "Galaxy S{n}" phones when they release "Galaxy S{n+1}" phones, and make their old handset obsolete. Perhaps they can be convinced to provide drivers and binary blobs to allow us to port some open OS to their slightly old hardware. Since they have Android drivers already, making Linux drivers should not be hard. They get to sell off some of their old, slow moving stock, and we get open phones that are only one generation behind state-of-the-art hardware, which would be fine with me. The phones would have already been certified by outfits like the FCC, so that expense would not apply. If they provide the drivers and needed binary blobs, we could port our preferred OS. The phones could be sold to us "as is", with no end-user support from the manufacturer or carrier. It's not a perfect solution, but I'd be satisfied with it. Ken Young Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory kyo...@cfa.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community