I am HIGHLY curious as to what Nokia thinks about OpenMoko
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 7:25 PM PST In Ideas and rants
This just absolutley blew my mind:
Check out this PDF
The specs aren’t that great, but this phone isn’t about the specs. They’re launching an open source platform on open hardware! Here is hoping these guys actually get something done worth buying. I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on them because Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is a huge company and thus are slow to react to my needs. If I have an idea and post it to this blog, the chances of someone at Nokia actually sitting down and thinking about it are slim and none. They are a huge company and I understand that. A small group of Linux geeks however … you can go from concept to working code within a very very short amount of time. I feel like a kid in a candy store!
Hardware
* 120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm)
* 2.8" VGA (480×640) TFT Screen
* Samsung s3c2410 SoC
* Global Locate AGPS chip
* Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
* Unpowered USB 1.1
* Touchscreen
* micro-sd slot
* 2.5mm audio jack
* 2 buttons
* 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
* 128 MB SDRAM
* 64 MB NAND Flash
yeah, this is quite interesting. and so is trolltech’s greenphone, even though the targets are quite different(greenphone cost 700$ and it’s inteneded for developers, fic is aprox. 350& unlocked, colud be sord of a linux mass market phone, could be subsidized in asia, although i doubt it). by the way, the greenphone open source sdk just started shipping after they solved some licensing issues.