[kwlug disc.] anyone local using an openmoko phone?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 7:04:54 pm Kyle Spaans wrote:
> Sweet, as soon as my current cell dies, I'll switch to one of those!

Be careful; the phone, even once released to consumers, I imagine will NOT be 
polished.  I'm getting it SPECIFICALLY because of its open design.  I can 
hack the UI, I can hack the apps, I can make the phone do all of the things 
that the Treos and Blackberries and iPhones either can't do, or have been 
crippled from doing.

I'm getting the phone because of its openness, not because it is a complete, 
fully-featured, polished and bug-free Linux phone.  It's not.  The US$600 or 
so it is expected to cost is NOT pocket change (at least not for me); I am 
buying it because of my principles and because I'm totally fed up with the 
craptastic watered-down consumer shit I'm forced to get through the current 
vendors.

-A.