Don't buy an iPhone-- buy a Neo1973

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:40:16PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> OpenMoko must have figured out a way of doing it, and smartly decided not
> to buck the FCC.

FIC (hardware supplier for the Neo1973/OpenMoko) mass-produces
GSM phone modules. They just needed to expose a subset of the
API for it in an FCC-safe manner -- which they did by largely
making it accessible as a Hayes-style modem.


> [0] What *I* wanted to know is why the hell they didn't put good PIM
> software in there so it could have been an awesome PDA replacement.  Their
> answer was that it's not their target audience (soccer moms), but I feel
> that would have made it viable for many more customers.

It's Linux -- you can add all the PIM software you want.

-dsr-



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