On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:48:46AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, July 24, 2011 a las 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com > escribió: > > Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > > > > If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings > > > it might be somewhat useful to me ... > > > > There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved > > in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it > > would presumably be possible to develop an app to provide access > > to bash (and thence any other desired command-line tools). > > Why do you want to use the closed Android if there is an OpenSource, > Linux based cellphone, having shell, X11, GPS, GPRS, Wifi, USB ethernet, > x11vnc, ... etc. > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page > http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt
I considered that. Unfortunately, it does not suffice. The OpenMoko project suffers some pretty significant hardware issues -- such as, in some cases, lack of necessary hardware to achieve anything close to functionality parity with common Android devices. It does not even provide G3 access, which is a minimal piece of functionality for a smartphone to be worth having, according to my preferences at least. I wish circumstances were different. I would much prefer something like OpenMoko if it provided what I needed. I would even accept a slightly slower processor, no accelerometer, no GPS, and several other shortcomings compared to the hardware in my current Android smartphone, but the lack of G3 support -- especially in combination to some hardware quality issues that have come up for several people I know who have OpenMoko devices mouldering in drawers right now -- ensures it is not worth my while to spend real money on one. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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