Android vs. OpenMoko: Who Will Win?
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| Last week Google announced Android, which is the newest open-source mobile
| phone platform. Google is not the only company behind Android but several
| companies make up the Open Handset Alliance.
|
| [...]
|
| Meanwhile, the open-source mobile platform known to many GNU/Linux users,
| OpenMoko, hasn't kicked up nearly as much mainstream media attention. Both
| OpenMoko and Android leverage the power of the Linux kernel and other
| open-source projects to provide a free software platform for mobile devices.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE5Mg
Google Android gets positive early reviews
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| While Google's Android announcement generated a lot of hype last week,
| developers had to wait until yesterday to see whether the company had
| actually developed a good platform.
|
| After downloading and examining Google's Android software development kit
| yesterday, some software developers gave the platform favorable reviews and
| praised it as a breath of fresh air for an industry that has long been
| characterized by closed devices and software.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2059151437&rid=-50
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java
ME
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| Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the
| free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the
| community. For the java standard edition (aka "the cat is out of the bag")
| there is an exception to the GPLv2 that makes it "reciprocal" only for the
| Java platform code itself but not for the user code running on it (or most
| people wouldn't even dare touching it with a pole).
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http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/
Google's software licence (Apache, I think) perhaps isn't as good as
OpenMoko's.
Related:
Enlightenment Desktop UI running on the Neo1973
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| Another UI video has surfaced showing E17 enlightenment running the the
| Neo1973.
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http://mobilemoko.net/2007/enlightenment-desktop-ui-running-on-the-neo1973/
OpenMoko Developer Preview Sold Out After Unexpected Demand
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| OpenMoko, the first Open Source cell phone, has sold out the entire planned
| production run for the device's developer preview after unexpected demand.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/6/24279
iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
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| This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
| project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
| are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
| framework to go with it.
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http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
Mr. Martin tear down this wall
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| In Madrid today Trolltech announced that its Qtopia Phone Edition for
| Linux-based mobile phones is being ported to the Neo1973 and will be offered
| to individuals under GPL 2.0.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1436
OpenMoko Developer Preview Sold Out After Unexpected Demand
,----[ Quote ]
| OpenMoko, the first Open Source cell phone, has sold out the entire planned
| production run for the device's developer preview after unexpected demand.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/6/24279
iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
,----[ Quote ]
| This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
| project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
| are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
| framework to go with it.
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http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
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