next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread Erez D
It is time to get a new smartphone. so i have to choose one. Some history: for a long time i wanted a GNU/Linux phone, and when the moco arrived, i was happy. While I was thinking of getting a moco, happy about the freedom but not happy about it lagging technology-wise, there was a new better

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I read your email and I was quite amused how you gave Free to iOS. In what terms is it free? can you get the iOS code under *any* license? no. Can you modify it? no. On the Android side you're yelling it's not GNU. It isn't, but you can get gingerbread code (AOSP) without any issue. No, you

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 26, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Erez D wrote: 1. iphone - not gnu/linux nor open. actually this is the closest as can be in terms of free as speech. It's also in terms of availabilty and likelyhood of apps. There are a lot more iPhones in the world than any other smart phone, and if you

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote: It is time to get a new smartphone. so i have to choose one. [snip] and wanted a gnu/linux one. My options: 1. iphone - not gnu/linux nor open. actually this is the closest as can be in terms of free as speech. What. 2. symbian - deprecated. should be

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:10:09PM +0300, Erez D wrote: So I got myself an N900, and was very happy with it. i compiled a kernel, installed gnu/linux programs on it, and actually used it as a computer. Then nokia abandoned the N900's OS - maemo (when the N900 was around 1 year on the market)