I opted for a Openmoko Freerunner last august. development has been slower than some would have expected and there are a couple of hardware buzzing issues. (there is a fix but requires soldering) There are plenty of distros [1] for it including two based on debian and there is also a beta port of android released by koolu. status etc here [2]
although android on the freerunner is not quite ready as a daily phone many others are using other ditros quite happily. as far as i know androids filesytem on the g1 provided by t-mobile is readonly. it has been cracked twice and then patched again in updates. google is offering a developer edition of the g1 which solves this problem but this would not come with the unlimited data contract from t-mobile. also worth noting that there is also a g2 handset on the way. which does not feature a keyboard. Thus awaiting the cupcake release which should include a virtual keyboard. some great guys in the community have added a virtual keyboard to the koolu release but it has issues with not being able to input text in some of the dialogs. as for the android os look and feel. i realy like it. some nice visuals and snappy screens. azmodie [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions [2] http://freerunner.android.koolu.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
