Dear Steve: About that iPhone...
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| What I think you should make openly available, however, is an
| interface specification for a capability that's not supposed to
| be there yet.
|
| Let me explain: I see the iPhone as an interface connecting the
| user to the network; like this: (network <?iPh | one?>user) -
| and you see that little vertical bar in the middle? Imagine that's
| a third party device, something roughly the size of a Sony memory
| stick but with its own processor, memory, and embedded
| application.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=795
A lot of buzz over an expensive device.
Related:
Forget iPhone, hail OpenMoko, the true revolution
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| ...I would rather wait for OpenMoko to become available for purchase
| than shell out high bucks for iPhone. Just like with any Apple
| product, it is like an awesome looking golden cage. I always
| preferred freedom to control my own digital devices than to be
| mostly dependent on one vendor for everything.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/forget_iphone_hail_openmoko_the_true_revolution
Open Phones with Open Moko
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| While the hardware may be similar, the strategy is a complete
| reversal of Apple's closed platform and proprietary hardware.
| OpenMoko is an open Linux-based mobile application development
| platform that's designed to help operators and developers build
| innovative applications on top of a basic phone platform.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_phone/
Free Your Phone
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| 2007-03-11 Phase 1: Official Developer Launch
| We will sell the Neo1973 direct from openmoko.com for US$350 plus
| shipping. Sales and orders will be worldwide. We are specifically
| targeting open source community developers.
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http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/001586.html
Funambol Shows Open Source Push Email, Contacts and Calendars for Everyone at
3GSM World Congres
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| The company will also show the world's first open source Java
| mobile email client for mass market phones and how its software
| powers the email, contacts and calendars for the popular
| OpenMoko mobile Linux platform.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070206/sftu055.html?.v=94
A Zune Phone? Hah, What a Joke!
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| You see, I find this to be quite amusing. Here Microsoft is reportedly
| in the beginning stages of creating their own version of a Zunes
| martphone, but it's already being speculated that Windows Mobile won't
| make an appearance even though it already contains the functions that
| a smartphone would need. I get the fact that a Zune phone will
| probably be targeted to an audience that doesn?t necessarily want
| to get caught up in all of the nitty gritty functions of a
| smartphone, but if Microsoft doesn?t use its own mobile operating
| system on its own mobile device, then how are we supposed to take
| Windows Mobile seriously?
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http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Columns/A_Zune_Phone?_Hah%2C_What_a_Joke!_200702072802/
Reviewers converge on new Nokia Internet tablet
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| The N800 shipped Jan. 6 without a peep -- let alone a press release
| -- from Nokia. Nonetheless, the device seems to be attracting more
| interest, at least from the fourth estate, than did the arguably
| more revolutionary 770 Internet tablet from which it evolved.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8932198857.html
Apple iPhone: A Disappointment Waiting to Happen
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| Will Apple suddenly decide to open up development for the
| iPhone? Let's hope so.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2452&Itemid=449
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