March 12, 2008
OpenMoko, the Open Source Cell Phone to Finally Go on Sale
Open Moko Inc will start selling the OpenMoko phone shortly to the general public.The code is open source but not Android.
OpenMoko announced at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference that it will start selling mobile phones to general consumers.
OpenMoko (run by Openmoko Inc of Taiwan, a subsidiary of First International Computer Inc of Taiwan) is a developer of mobile phones using open-source hardware and software. OpenMoko developed OpenMoko Linux and Neo, which are open-source software platform and hardware for mobile phones. OpenMoko Linux uses Linux as its OS kernel and employs X11 and GTK as its window systems.
“OpenMoko Linux is entirely composed of open-source software,” said Michael Shiloh, head of developer relations.
Filed under Open Source by Dr. Dog
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Has there been any word on what (if any) carriers will support the phone in the US?
Eric,
The OpenMoko is GPRS-GSM enabled product. Only two US carriers are GSM — AT&T (from Cingular acquisition) and T-Mobile. I am not up on their ‘open phone’ policy, but I heard rumblings sometime back that AT&T intended to match Verizon Wireless on this score.