Hi,
Four months later... Responding to myself :)
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com wrote:
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
Hi,
It should not matter much as I am not going to use the internet much because
of the outrageous cellular internet prices that are in use in Israel. It is
somewhat an advantage, as you can't break the internet limit easily.
Does cell-com still have their 130 NIS a month (including price of
Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the
FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large
community support.
Arie Skliarouk wrote:
Hi,
Four months later... Responding to myself :)
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com
Michael Shiloh wrote:
Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the
FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large
community support.
Quoth the man who has worked for them and have been burned... :-(
Actually, that fact matters very little, if you
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Michael Shiloh wrote:
Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the
FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large
community support.
Quoth the man who has worked for them and have been burned... :-(
Thanks. I have no
On Monday 01 June 2009 00:50:47 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
There was a company who made a lot of noise around providing MAC
compatibles recently. They finally wen bankrupt a while ago.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:05:24PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Bad example. Psystar was built on selling computers with stolen copies
of MacOS. According to the EULA (which was enforcable in the US), you
can only use it on a real Apple Mac.
stolen? How were they stolen? Did Psystar
2009/5/29 Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu
- That you can get root access on a G1 is an accident in history, not
by design.
An accident which tends to occur over and over again.
(see link in my previous message)
- The shipped applications have a very closed mindset: upload all
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:38:23AM +0300, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
2009/5/29 Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu
- That you can get root access on a G1 is an accident in history, not
by design.
An accident which tends to occur over and over again.
(see link in my previous message)
2009/5/31 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il:
But it means that the setup voids your warantee. And if you happen to
brick your new toy along the way? you get a nice small paperwieght for
your desktop.
That's something to factor in the price.
True.
Now, think about somebody who wants to
On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
There was a company who made a lot of noise around providing MAC
compatibles recently. They finally wen bankrupt a while ago.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/05/mac_clone_maker_psystar_goes_bankrupt.html
Bad example. Psystar
On Tue, May 26, 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote about Re: Perpetual quest for GNU
smartphone:
Yes, I want a free platform.
I did not meant to say that lack of DRM is an disadvantage (actually I think
the opposite). I just said that lack of DRM is one of the reason why
professional developers do
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
Take a look at Palm. 10 years it was the most popular PDA platform, and
was continuously becoming even more so. So thousands of applications were
developed for it - many free and many not. Palm did not have any DRM
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote:
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 (...)
This makes me look into direction of Android G1.
Note
Shay Ohayon wrote:
There is also a talk given by Gilad Ben-Yoseff (anyone know if the
slides of the presentation are available somewhere?) and the
documentation for development is pretty good.
Slides and video of the lecture (thanbks to Yael Vaya and Crictor) are here:
2009/5/26 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com
This makes me look into direction of Android G1.
http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=728197
Since it's arrival to Europe, several stores in zap started shipping the G2
(HTC Magic) which supposed to be exactly the same as G1 but with no keyboard
Be careful how you phrase your messages, in some parts of the world
to root means to bury, in others it means to f***
:)
-Amos
On 5/27/09, Shlomi Loubaton shlomis...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/26 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com
This makes me look into direction of Android G1.
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
I have a T-Mobie G1 (bought in the states) and am pretty happy with
it. It is pure Linux in its core, has an SDK for application
development and the whole source is available
(http://source.android.com/). I am not too interested on GPS
applications or navigation but it has a pretty good GPS (tough
(As you used the word GNU in the subject line)
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, 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
Hi,
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, 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
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
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