Hello, james wrote: > I'd be willing to code on that *organized* project, if it existed. > > I want modern hardware and I'm willing to pay a lot more, as long > as I can put the software I want on the phone. In fact, I just prefer > to pay $1,000.00 usd and buy one and not have to 'venture' the phone. > So please let me know if such a phone exists.
You could order one of those https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/ to test your software developments for your use-case. The next step, would be to evolve the pyra lessons (also community and software distributions) into a mobile phone form factor. > I can work with one or 2 folks to refine it to a specification. Then > we float the idea and see what kind of response we get. > I take the financial risks, I'm going to get my seed money back on > the first 5,000.00 phones. Please be aware that there are a couple of folks here that have also not just refined some specification but gone through from projecting prototypes to selling series of devices already. Want to seed? If you really want a more powerful mainline linux phone, and are in to fund a venture to accelerate this now, you may be able to fund current team members https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra-team/ right away, or alternatively find and fund another established Phone and Case manufacturer, and goldelico.com engineering, to work together and combine their expertise and access to component sourcing, case design, production, free software development and the corresponding custom hardware development. A powerfull, unrestricted mainline linux mobile phone device certainly has a market. http://plasma-mobile.org https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile > I do not read the list, so somebody drop me an email, when you guys > coalesce into some form of a converged specification. If it is not just investment interest, maybe you are the person that can bring together a larger phone manufacturer, that is able to source proper hardware at bulk prices for a side-project, with the already existing developments from the open source software and hardware development players? Connecting the last piece of the puzzle? In any way, Nikolaus, does the project software at goldelico allow to provide a wiki page for gathering a table of components with say desired/available/selected/supported/... status? A project wiki seems like a good idea. Cheers, Chris PS: The basic prerequisite for to run arbitrary free software stacks and distributions are hardware drivers. A fully functional device requires that the mainline linux kernel has driver modules for all hardware components. (Yes, they may still depend on some closed firmwares.) As Dr. Schaller wrote, just making hardware and expecting that the open software community develops and maintains drivers does not work. If hardware drivers are missing, the open source drivers needs to get written in order to sell hardware that is "linux mainline" ready (usable with common linux distributions). With the golden-delicious engineering company he primarily selected components for the GTA04 board which already had existing drivers, and payed kernel developers to write or improve drivers where necessary. Concluding from his emails, goldelico ordered the parts and had the board assembled by a production plant specialized on custom electronics devices. Another thing was implementing proper bootloader and system installation methods. _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.openphoenux.org
