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OpenMoko usability review [video]
hackaday.com — [Dave Fayram] has put out two videos covering the interface of the FreeRunner from OpenMoko. For those unfamiliar, we've covered it a few times before. It is an opensource mobile platform that includes a full X server. They encourage people to make their own software and even release the CAD files for chassis modification.
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- asiogroup, on 07/22/2008, -1/+0Nice,Dug it!!! what more?
BTW, Nice Article - lickmyback, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1I just posted this on the linked site but I'll post it here as well:
"Every review I have seen so far of the FreeRunner tries to compare it with the iPhone. What you're comparing is a recent consumer device born of years worth of HW development, decades worth of SW development and millions of dollars worth of investment against an essentially pre-beta version of an open-source development platform that doesn't even pretend to be consumer-ready, with almost zero financial backing. Anyone trying to compare these two devices has no idea what they're doing.
I could have purchased an iPhone for less than I paid for my FreeRunner and probably got it sooner too - but I didn't, and not because it's a better phone to use. I could also go through and list the glaring faults with the device, from the MicroSD card interferring with the GPS antenna because it sits to close, to the annoying bevel, to the shortcomings of the current software, however that would not make me a journalist. If you *must* compare the two devices then why not review them in the context of the device which the review purports to be about, and discuss things like the ability to program your own applications or the freedom to use any provider you like without being locked into ludicrous contracts?"- Skippy45, on 08/20/2008, -0/+0
If you don't like it when someone compares the Free Runner with an iPhone then perhaps OpenMoko should read this advice and do the same. You can't have it both ways where OpenMoko tries to compare this currently useless brick with an iPhone and then the next day complain that it's not fair to compare the two.
Comparison between Apple iPhone (and iPhone 3G) and the FIC Freerunner (GTA02) running Openmoko Linux
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/IPhone
Comparison between Apple iPhone and the FIC Neo1973 ((GTA01Bv4) running OpenMoko Linux
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/IPhone_%28GTA01%29
It seems that OpenMoko is more than willing to compare the two devices so you can not start crying foul when someone else also does the same.
- Skippy45, on 08/20/2008, -0/+0
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