Wednesday, November 08, 2006

OpenMoko announces the first truly open source cell phone 

Amsterdam, OPEN SOURCE IN MOBILE CONFERENCE (PRWeb) November 7, 2006

OpenMoko today announced the immediate availability of a completely integrated open source mobile communications platform in partnership with FIC, a world leader in motherboards, graphics cards, mobile solutions, and electronic devices. The announcement of the OpenMoko mobile communications platform coincides with the unveiling of FIC's Neo1973 smartphone, which utilizes the full OpenMoko platform and will be available in January 2007.

See also on the impact of this gadget at the Inquirer.

The only drawback: the current FIC's NEO1973 smartphone does support even GPS, but not WiFi - but this will be fixed soon.

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