Monochrome Mentality

Having "played" with the OpenMoko development images in QEMU for a while, I finally decided to "pull the trigger" on a first-generation, "developer only" Neo1973. What makes this purchase so exciting to me is that I'm finally able to support a group of people working for Freedom and openness that try to meet that goal with a tangible product. The OpenMoko community is very supportive of Free Software and FIC itself, the company behind the Neo phone, considers, to it's core, Freedom to be crucial to a sane mobile world.

The Neo isn't ready for "everyone" yet and as of today there's no real idea when it will be ready. The next generation phone being "ready" is determined quite a bit by how well the software is polished on existing Neo phones. The plan is to release the GTA02 and the first "stable" OpenMoko software together: a respectable goal but one that won't come to fruitation until the GTA01 gets enough polish and I hope I can be of assistance to that.

You can certainly expect me to do reviews and provide information about the Neo1973 and OpenMoko itself as I get the device, use it and hack on it. I'm expecting problems with it, and gaps in the feature-set. "It's not ready" they say. Hrm... Where have I heard THAT one before?