Finally, iPhone annoused, also with multi-touch screen

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Wed Jan 10 10:13:57 CET 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:41 +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> Leira Hua wrote:
> > when i saw it, i said: WOW, isn't it an OSX powered Neo?
> > 
> > http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/
> > http://www.apple.com/iphone
> 
> It's hot.. *but* apparently it has no handwriting recognition and it isn't
> really a smartphone (see
> http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/73213967/ ), because you
> can't upload new applications to it. Quite the opposite of the Neo, despite
> the similar appearance. What a difference a bit of software makes...
> 
> Speaking about handwriting recognition software, will Neo ship with any?
> Are there any free solutions available?

Yeah, that apple iphone is locked down! It uses apple ipod dock
connector, can't be upgraded, can't remove the battery, is locked into
apple DRM, etc...blah...

The openmoko project has a major opening here and vital that people
publish about this lock-down on their blogs, etc.

Jon

> -Sven
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