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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. Re:David versus Goliath by linhares · · Score: 3, Interesting
    EVEN BEFORE CUPCAKE:

    OPENMOKO

    Google PageRank: 7

    Google BackLinks: 526

    Live Search BackLinks: 6

    Technorati Links: 1,230

    Compare that to http://code.google.com/android

    Google PageRank: 8

    Google BackLinks: 1,880

    Live Search BackLinks: 164

    Technorati Links: 7,980

    And... the google site has been replaced by http://developer.android.com/, which will soon capture the original's statistics, and then some.

  2. Re:David versus Goliath by Cyclops · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So your point is that a very popular non Free Software phone, backed by Google and major phone makers has more fame? You just won the Sherlock Holmes award!
    BTW, OpenMoko is the first Free Software Android Phone....