Don't buy an iPhone-- buy a Neo1973

[mattboston-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On 7/10/07, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> If I recall correctly, the OpenMoko architecture has a closed source
> >> stack for the GSM interface.
> >>
> >>   -Tom
> >
> > Oh, yeah- paranoia got ahead of logic.  Yes, the GSM stack is closed.
>
> I don't think it's paranoia.  When the Nokia N770 came out, I was talking
> to a Nokia rep at Linux World.  Of course everyone wanted to know why they
> didn't put a phone into it[0].  The answer is that the FCC would never
> approve a phone where there was any chance of third parties touching the
> phone components, and it would have been very complicated and expensive to
> separate the phone part out enough.
>
> OpenMoko must have figured out a way of doing it, and smartly decided not
> to buck the FCC.
>
>
> [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.
>
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Mobile phone companies have a hard enough time combatting fraud, it
only makes sense that the hardware is locked down.  I worked for AT&T
over 10 years ago and back then they had a large fraud department, I'm
sure the department has grown since.

-matt

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