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Openmoko Phone Not Dead After All

Posted by timothy on from the tut-mir-leid dept.

In response to the report I posted a few days ago that the Openmoko FreeRunner phone had been discontinued, Pat Meier-Johnson writes on behalf of Openmoko to say that this isn't so. "Some bloggers have been misinterpreting a presentation by Openmoko CEO, Sean Moss-Pultz last week in Switzerland to think that the company is getting out of the phone business. That's not true. In fact, the Openmoko FreeRunner (their current model) is alive and well. (Also in Switzerland, Sean announced another project — not a phone — that they are calling 'Project B.' No details yet.) The next version of the phone, codenamed GTA03, has been suspended and there were some associated layoffs, but the GTA03 was in constant flux as a design. So the company is being prudent and focusing on the FreeRunner which has lots of open source community and most recently, embedded developer support." Glad to hear this, because the FreeRunner is an interesting phone.

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  1. Excellent! by jmccarty · · Score: 1, Funny

    (+1 Opensource)

  2. Re:Interesting by eltaco · · Score: 2, Funny

    +1 hackable

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  3. Re:Missing Kool Factor and Advertising $$$ by byolinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please point me to where I can download the source code to the iPhone kernel.

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  4. Re:Damnit! by ksheff · · Score: 2, Funny

    the Lego phone - it works great until you drop it and have to put it back together. :)

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