RE: Potential buyer

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Lehner
... and it has an (in my experience) excellent GPS receiver. I use it with/for OpenStreetMap and there is a lot of nice navigation and map software around that you cannot get easily on 'closed' phones or on Garmin devices. The price is about the same for an Etrex Legend and for the FreeRunn

RE: Potential buyer

2011-06-06 Thread Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)
Depends on how you define open and phone. Openmoko, depending on the distro you install and how much you play with it varies from basically usable phone to extremely fun/frustrating hardware that might make occasional calls or texts. I've used it as both over the years I've used mine. For a phone

Re: Potential buyer

2011-06-06 Thread David Lanzendörfer
Hi. >can you guys suggest some other, open, sexy, phone. Soon the GTA04 will be out, while it's just a board you still will need to acquire some chassis for it but it's certainly cooler because it has more CPU. And no, there is no other opensource phone out there then the OpenMoko at least not THA