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Android without the suck

Erigami Scholey-Fuller — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:35:12 +0000

As much as I try to avoid it, I occasionally get sucked into gadget marketing. The latest toy that has caught my eye is the Agora Pro made by Kogan¹. It’s specs are a laundry list of what I want in a phone:

it runs Android,
it has an FM receiver,
it talks wifi,
and it has a touch screen.

To top it off, the Canadian price after shipping is less than $375.

Now, if it just had a “democratically depose Stephen Harper” button, I’d pre-order one right now.

Footnotes

Okay, it probably isn’t made by Kogan, but it’s being marketed by Kogan, which is close enough for my purposes.

What sucks about opensource

Erigami Scholey-Fuller — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:08:38 +0000

Linux Hater’s Blog is offering interesting critiques of open source philosophy. It’s nice to read a blog about free software that’s critical (and informative).

On a similar topic: I’ve only been able to find one blog post about someone’s experiences with an OpenMoko cellphone. It’s quite damning. Too bad. Perhaps whoever is running the company will port Android to it and call it a day.

OpenMoko, where are you?

Erigami Scholey-Fuller — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:30:49 +0000

OpenMoko should be releasing its fully open source cellphone any day now (~~q4 2007~~, ~~March~~, no ~~April~~, no ~~May~~). We’re now told it’ll be available on July 4. I have a sneaking suspicion that Android will be out before the OpenMoko FreeRunner is available/usable for consumers.