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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. Working on other things than immature phones by Buran · · Score: 3, Informative

    The OpenMoko project has been around for a long time but it's been development only and unusable for the end user. US cellphone companies want to be able to sell something to end users now. They don't want an unfinished piece of junk that they don't know anything about -- they want their existing suppliers to give them USABLE phones.

    Once this thing becomes polished and usable, at least as polished and usable as cell phones get, then we might see some interest.

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    i am a soviet space shuttle
  2. Re:This is a very good thing by gumpish · · Score: 3, Informative

    No camera.

  3. Re:This is a very good thing by felix85 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yeah and the cool thing about this phone is that it can act as a USB master so if you have a digital camera you can just plug it into the phone and upload your images without a computer.

    The Neo1973's mini-USB port can be configured to act as a usb host instead of a usb device. This opens up a range of possibilities, such as USB cameras and usb input devices.

    Thats for the Neo1973 but it should also be true for the FreeRunner.