[OT]Making Geek's phone not so offtopic on this list ;)

David Reyes Samblas Martinez david at tuxbrain.com
Thu Nov 19 15:18:25 CET 2009


David Reyes Samblas Martinez
http://www.tuxbrain.com
Open ultraportable & embedded solutions
Openmoko, Openpandora,  Arduino
Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!!




2009/11/19 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>:
> If it's better hardware than the Freerunner and with free software drivers,
> then I'm surely interested :)
Thats the question, that is more powerfull is sure, but our first
stesp is to see how many of this drivers are free and does  that
doesnt how hard is to make them free.

Regards
>
> Best,
> Rui
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:06:59AM +0100, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> I was talking with the Geek's phone CEO we agreed a couple of
>> intersting things ,
>>
>> In a couple of days we will receive some final prototypes of the final
>> version of ONE
>>
>> We will work together to open as far the hardware of the phone, first
>> step is obtaining the BOM list of the chipsets included on the ONE, to
>> evaluate how difficult will be to port the actual kernel used to run
>> Android to one to use for example SHR,QtMoko, or any other  :)
>>
>> Until the prototypes arrives and/or the we obtain the BOM I would like
>> hear from you  any question you believe is useful to be answered,
>> other requeriments  to achieve make run a GNU/Linux distribution on
>> this hardware.
>>
>> Also if someone  is already interested to do serious hacking on the
>> device please contact me personally or through this list and I will
>> try to make you arrive one of this unit, as you can understand if we
>> receive more colaboration proprosal than devices available we must do
>> a selection, so please don't blame us to much if you can't recieve a
>> unit at first attempt :P
>>
>> Regards
>
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