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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?"

2 of 140 comments (clear)

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

    Can we talk about the iPhone 3G instead?

  2. 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!