Golden Delicious Now Shipping Hackable Openmoko GTA04

Posted by timothy on Friday February 10, 2012 @08:40PM from the price-vs-performance dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an update to the updated Openmoko phone that's long been in the works. From the story at Linux For Devices: "German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro. The Openmoko GTA04 is available as a finished phone or as a board that slips into earlier Openmoko Neo Freerunner GTA01 and GTA02 cases, providing an 800MHz Texas Instruments DM3730 processor and a full range of sensors and wireless features." It's rather expensive for a mid-range Android phone, but far more interesting than fairly ordinary phones decked out with bling.

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And you can even 3D-print your own case! by slyon · 2012-02-10 20:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

I reworked the original Openmoko CAD files, to be 3D-printable. Checkout my work here: http://blog.slyon.de/3d-printed-gta04-case/
This is a wonderful idea by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-10 21:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

It's also 1,000 dollars.
I'm interested and supportive, but not enough to shell out a grand.
I'm guessing they're targeting the independently-wealthy geeks sympathetic to open-source and open hardware standards who don't mind having a second phone or don't care about app marketplaces and such.... Wait a second, who is going to buy this phone?