Free Runner price vs Meizu M8 price

[Peter Nijs]

U also have to know that "running linux" doesn't mean it's open. Some Telenet 
digiboxes (The onlything in Belgium that can receive the encrypted DBV-C) run 
Linux, but they are the most closed devices I've ever seen, and they also 
fail in what they are designed to do. I assume they where designed to receive 
DVB-C and not to empty peoples pockets, as how Telenet actually uses them. 
But that's another story.

 I don't know what the situation is with these iRivers and Meizus. A device 
doesn't get my attention by running Linux. It gets my attention by being 
open.

Peter

Op Wednesday 11 June 2008 00:58:01 schreef cdr:
> On Tue Jun 10, 2008 at 08:38:30PM +0200, Ortwin Regel wrote:
> > There are cheaper contracts if you don't get a phone with them in
> > Germany. No idea what the situation in the US is. (It's probably
> > godawful... :-/) Personally, I use a prepaid SIM card so I pay no
> > monthly fees at all. Much cheaper for me than any contract. So for me
> > the price advantage over an iPhone is very real.
>
> although both vapor, iRiver and Meizu both have phones in the pipeline
>
> at least iRivers 'runs linux' as well.
>
> apple is nowhere near as cost competitive as either of them..
>
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