> Ain't that going to hold only a very short time, given that you're > locked out from the official firmware upgrade path?
You could theoretically just keep running the old firmware with the 3rd party apps ecosystem that is flourishing, no? > And of what use a smartphone without applications? The 3rd party apps are pretty good, even though they don't use the official SDK, but maybe this ecosystem will die after the official SDK comes out in Feb... > P.S. Neo FreeRunner sightings at the CES have been reported. Will be > shipping to developers this spring. _WAY_ too many problems with OpenMoko and FIC for me to now have any trust in their ability to deliver a good product, on-time. Yes, it was supposed to be a truly open hacker's phone but they've repeatedly let the community down with issues like the GSM firmware bugs that they can't distribute the fix for, FreeRunner delays and basic functionality like placing calls and a sane interface to the underlying gsm layer taking forever to come together. I have the GTA02 and guess what? I'm running qtopia on it, not OpenMoko. Although, I hope FreeRunner does well, because a clusterfuc^Wconsortium of hardware vendors making phones that run android is an even bigger pipe dream. (I don't even know if Android is truly open source anymore with their proprietary-but-marketed-as-almost-open-source SDK [1]) [1] http://robilad.livejournal.com/22312.html > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)
