OpenMoko is cool; it’s an open source mobile (smart)phone operating system based on Linux.
Phone manufacturers seem to be having a lot of trouble creating good operating systems. I’ve actually never seen one that came up with a decent ‘usable’ interface, let alone one that looked good as well. Well, apart from the iPhone of course, but as always Apple is playing solo in a whole different league.
So the OpenMoko project seems a prophecy for a better world. After more then 15 years of worldwide mobile telecomunication, phone companies are finally forced into focusing more on the quality of their product instead of just their marketing strategies.A Taiwanese company called FIC, which founded the OpenMoko project, has recently launched a development version of their Neo1973 which runs OpenMoko. Also promising are the rumors of Google using OpenMoko as the operating system for their gPhone.
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