Openmoko 10-pack

[Kurt Granroth]

Tuna wrote:
> Almost kind of so. It has a touch screen and whatnot.
>
> It's completely unlocked though. Here's a comparison chart of the iPhone 
> and FreeRunner:
>
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/IPhone
>
> I would take the FreeRunner any day, even if it was proprietary.
>   
I find it curious that that comparison grid would be on the OpenMoko 
website... it comes off almost as an ad for iPhone superiority.  Really, 
the FreeRunner looks like a huge step backwards in every technical way.

Where OpenMoko shines is one area that's tough to show in a comparison 
table since, at most, it's going to only take up one or two table 
cells.  That is, OpenMoko is "open" for modification and addition.  The 
iPhone is one of the most closed-off smart phones ever created.  For 
instance, it infuriates me to no end to know that you cannot write GPLed 
apps for the iPhone.  You want to modify the phone?  Expect an "update" 
from Apple that will spitefully reduce your iPhone to an unusable mess.  
OpenMoko, and hopefully Google's upcoming Android, will finally allow us 
to have smart phones that *we* control.  I'm really looking forward to 
that day.

BUT, that day is not now and the above comparison chart does a bang-up 
job of illustrating that.

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