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http://www.pcworld.com

A Q&A with OpenMoko on its upcoming Neo 1973, called a hacker's answer to the iPhone. The Neo 1973, the first phone to use the open-source, Linux-based OpenMoko mobile operating system, has techies abuzz in anticipation of its October consumer release.

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14 years 45 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago

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the cell phone isn't fully open

the cell phone isn't fully open source, some components are proprietary

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kiba

14 years 45 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago

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Some are under NDA, and some are

Some are under NDA, and some are required to be proprietary because of government(Because of FCC I believed).

We need to lobby the government to open up and the manufacturer who forced the NDA.

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14 years 45 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago

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Afaik they are now trying to reverse

Afaik they are now trying to reverse engineer the GPS daemon. However, imho they should have distributed the proprietary GPS daemon only to developers who are trying to reverse engineer it and not to everyone and by default. The device is still usable without GPS support anyway and this way the problem would have got more attention.

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