OpenMoko turns CloseMoko
Well, not exactly. In brief I'll tell about the OpenMoko project and the Neo Freerunner smartphone. The first is an attempt of developing a software stack for smartphones based on linux, since openmoko started some forks or distros have appeared based on it. The second one is a mobile device (nowadays called smartphone) with an open hardware architecture.
Both of them are open projects which means you can know almost everything about them :-) While openmoko is a kit of software tools to develop applications, neo freerunner (the second generation, after neo 1973) is the hardware implementation of reference.
Neo could be understand it as the well known x86 architecture in the mobile world and openmoko is just a sample operating system for it.
Currently, bad news have been published for these two great projects. Although openmoko continues, neo architecture won't. This means that they will continue manufacturing neo phones but they won't improve the architecture specifications, and consequently there won't be new models.
2009-08-06 21:07 by pichulines (0 comments)

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