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Canadian Firms Get Behind OpenMoko/FreeRunner

Posted by timothy on from the watching-the-tail-lights dept.

mario writes "Now that the OpenMoko platform has stabilized enough to provide the OM2008 image (supporting the three major toolkits), things are starting to heat up. Linuxdevices is reporting on the start of a port of Devicescape's connect application. Koolu (another Canadian company) is also doing development for its W.E. phone (a branded FreeRunner). Which leads me to ask: Where are the American companies?"

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  1. Boring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we talk about the iPhone 3G instead?

    1. Re:Boring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ted Rogers is that you?

  2. Last time I checked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    .. Canada was still in America.

  3. Re:"Where are the American companies?" by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please, please, Aggressively monetizing their Leveraged IP in the Consumer Space...

  4. Dialing from the command line. by Animats · · Score: 4, Funny

    At last, a phone from Linux fanatics! You can dial from the command line. Just type:

    /etc/init.d/gsmd stop
    echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta01-pm-gsm.0/power_on
    echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta01-pm-gsm.0/power_on
    cu -l /dev/ttySAC0

    AT+CFUN=1
    AT+CPIN="<pin>"
    AT+COPS
    ATD<number>

    You are now connected. See how easy it is!

  5. Re:This is a very good thing by miro+f · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... no particular desire to pay for one (be it in $, g or mL)...

    you can pay for phones with blood now?

    --
    being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...
  6. Re:Cellphones and America by tuaris · · Score: 2, Funny

    In computing what counts is shipping / release date.

    Exactly, take Duke Nukem Forever for example.

    --
    President/CEO Pacy World http://www.pacyworld.com