On Tue, 26 May 2009, Arie Skliarouk 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?
There is a better choice than Android: maemo. See http://www.maemo.org for
details. In short, this is a debian based system, which includes GTK, QT,
Python, Perl. Many debian/ubuntu arm binary packages can be installed and
While Maemo devices are available for almost 4 years, the first Maemo
based phone is going to be released soon:
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/05/24/exclusive-everything-there-is-to-know-about-nokias-next-tablet/
While not listed in the article, the device will include GPS.
--
Matan.
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