Good evening! So who of you is thinking about buying the new iphone instead of an openmoko in case the technical specs really improve(3G, better resolution)? I'd love to have a open smartphone, but there are so many compromises with the openmoko project(hardware lacks, formfactor, unfinished software) and the timing for the release is bad unfortunately (on the other side the people interested in openmoko are not necessarily interested in the iphone - However, i guess there will be some people who drop the idea of buying a moko after next weeks apple conference...) I feel bad about this decision, i'm not willing to use proprietary software anywhere in my environment, neither work nor private, but the hardware side of the iphone is presumably better(3G, bigger screen) and the software is just _ready_. I'm kind of in a dilemma right now, on the one hand i know i'll hate the closeness of OSX at some point (Just like it happened with Windows 7 years ago) and would love to be able to do what i want with my smartphone, on the other hand i'm not a developer (i do some scripting but i'm far from any serious software hacking) and i don't have the skills to fix annoying bugs and will have to wait another few months till the software is in a useable state and a freerunner could get a expensive toy for me if development is not accelerating as fast as i expect it to after the release :-(
I guess the freerunner will not get available in the next week so i can still decide, probably i'm lucky and all the speculations about the iphone are untrue(only 3G is not a (OM-)dealbreaker for me) ;-) My favourite would still be a Nokia E70 with a useable linux-OS, i just loved the gullwing formfactor - if just Symbian wasn't such a crutch, and a bit more RAM would also not hurt on the E70... my 2 cents Christian _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community