Am 13.08.2010 um 17:08 schrieb Martix: > Hi community, > > I want to share a few news about WikiReader and Openmoko Inc. I am > publishing with permission my short interview with Sean Moss-Pultz the > CEO of Openmoko Inc.: > > _______________________________________________________________ >> May I have a question? How is it going with WikiReader? Are WikiReader >> sales satisfactory? > > Much better than expected. We're getting into major US retailers this > summer. And launching in Japan tomorrow. We've already sold 4x the > total number of FreeRunners. And we're just getting into the channel > now. So I'm quite excited about our chances with this product!
That is good news! > >> >> I wonder if you and your company are planning to >> create more open source/open design devices, maybe successor of Neo? > > Absolutely! WikiReader is fundamental to this. What we're doing is > getting our channel setup. To survive in consumer electronics you need > volume. And still, the only way to get volume is through retail > stores. So everything we're doing is focusing on making that > successful. Then we can build more product that stand for the same > principles (open) that got us started. > _______________________________________________________________ > > > Regards, > > Martin 'Martix' Holec > > > PS: I heard on IRC something about next Openmoko phone running > Android. I think, it's a good idea. Android will provide stable > software and community can port existing fully open distributions like > SHR, Qt Moko etc., which it should be easier on open hardware. After > experience with Neo FreeRunner it seems like better plan. If a new Openmoko phone is based on the OMAP3 like the BeagleBoard, there are at least 3 different Android ports (in addition to anything else like SHR, QtMoko, Debian, FreeBSD, ...). One of them is Rowboat (http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/wiki/BeagleBoard). Another project just today announced this on the beagleboard.org list: > Hi, > > We are pleased to release the Android - Froyo port for OMAP-3530 > BeagleBoard. This release enables developers evaluate CoreDruid's custom > Android-Froyo port for BeagleBoard. > > This release has minimum set of features like > 1. Android Froyo > 2. Qwerty keyboard > 3. USB Mouse > > We will release more stable & feature enriched version in near future. > > The source code and build instructions are available at: > > http://coredruids.org/ > > http://coredruids.org/?page_id=77 > > We appreciate your joining our open source initiative, reviewing our work > and sharing your knowledge & experiences with us. > Google groups : coredru...@googlegroups.com > Source code repositories : > http://gitorious.org/~coredruids<http://gitorious.org/%7Ecoredruids>(Android > Enablement) > Follow us on twitter : http://twitter.com/coredruids > > Thanks > CoreDruids Team If someone wants to try and/or help one of these projects to support a Freerunner type touchscreen, that can be done with the new Openmoko Beagle Hybrid board approach. Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community