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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spikeb
16 years 39 weeks 4 hours 48 min ago
the cell phone isn't fully open
the cell phone isn't fully open source, some components are proprietary
kiba
16 years 39 weeks 4 hours 31 min ago
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.
lindi
16 years 38 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago
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.