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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I already
did – he’s actually written about OpenMoko before (he sent me a
copy of his article (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Not
sure why he chose not to mention it in this article.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Regards,</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:insDate="2007-04-12T21:04:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Dean.Collins"
w:endInsDate="2007-04-12T21:04:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Dean
Collins</span></font></ns1:PersonName></span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'><a href="mailto:dean@mexuar.com"
title="mailto:dean@mexuar.com">dean@mexuar.com</a> <br>
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<st2:dial w:st="on">+1-917-207-3420</st2:dial> Mb<br>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><ns1:City
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w:endInsAuthor="Dean.Collins" w:endInsDate="2007-04-12T21:04:00Z"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Sydney</span></font></st1:place></st1:City></ns1:place></ns1:City><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> in-dial).</span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://click.mexuar.com/webuser/click/7/userurl/Cognation"
target=corraleta><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=125
height=25 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image001.gif@01C77D46.861DEF80"
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<a href="http://www.mexuar.com/" target="_blank"><strong><b><font
color="#525f3f" face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#525F3F'>www.Mexuar.com</span></font></b></strong></a><br>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
-----Original Message-----</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
From: michael@michaelshiloh.com [mailto:michael@michaelshiloh.com]</span></font></p>
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Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 8:59 PM</span></font></p>
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To: Dean Collins</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Cc: OpenMoko Community List</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Subject: Re: Brad Smith article</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Dean Collins wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
> I guess the OpenMoko community need to work on the PR skills, perfect</span></font></p>
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> opportunity for a mention and it got totally glossed over.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
> EDITORIAL EDGE:</span></font></p>
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></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
> Opening Up the Wireless Handset</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
> By Brad Smith, Wireless Week Technology Editor</span></font></p>
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></span></font></p>
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.....</span></font></p>
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> What do you think? Let me know at brad.smith@advantagemedia.com.</span></font></p>
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Very interesting, as this speaks to the more common consumer.</span></font></p>
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At the end of the article Brad invites feedback. It would be great if someone</span></font></p>
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with the appropriate skills could respond to Brad and let him know about</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
OpenMoko.</span></font></p>
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Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City u1_x003a_st="on" w:st="on"><st1:place u1_x003a_st="on"
w:st="on"><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Thursday, 12
April 2007 5:58 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Dean Collins<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: OpenMoko Neo</span></font><o:p></o:p></st1:place></st1:City></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yes, I have, Dean. I wrote about OpenMoko
in my last ETF newsletter – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a
name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Democracy
Hits the Mobile Phone<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>By Brad Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The average selling price of a mobile phone keeps going down while the
top five manufacturers continue to squeeze out the smaller players. So, why
would any company want to get into the handset business, and I’m not
talking about Apple’s iPhone.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>About 1 billion phones were sold in 2006, but 84 percent of those were
sold by Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson, according to Telecom
Trends International. The other manufacturers actually had a negative 19
percent growth in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This shrinking competitive field might discourage some, but not a
company called OpenMoko and its partners. OpenMoko is a corporation but
it’s more of a community that makes one think of the early days of the
Internet and geeks working in their garages. It’s been in development for
some time but just recently came out with its first smartphone, although for a
select audience. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>OpenMoko is the brainchild of a self-described “surfer boy who
wound up washed ashore in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.”
It is an open source mobile communications platform using Linux at its heart.
Its main partner is the Taiwanese device manufacturer First International
Computer (FIC), which has started producing the Neo1973 handset running the
OpenMoko platform.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The first handsets, just a few dozen, have been distributed free of
charge to those in the developer community to play with. More will go on sale
by the end of the month, again targeting open source developers, at a cost of
about $350. Then, sometime in September if plans work out, OpenMoko handsets
will hit some retail outlets as well as being sold online.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>What I know about the Neo1973 is based on what I’ve read on
OpenMoko’s wiki and webpage. It’s a quad-band GSM phone so it will
work anywhere in the world. It has GPS built in, a 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
(take that, iPhone), an application manager (through partner Funambol) and
standard PIM applications like e-mail, contacts and calendar.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>OpenMoko was born in the brain of <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Sean
Moss-Pultz</st1:PersonName>, the aforementioned surfer dude. He says OpenMoko
will take mobile handsets into a world that is as open as the PC, where
“mobile applications are equally as diverse and more easily
accessible” than they are now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“Ringtones are already a multi-billion dollar market,”
Moss-Pultz says. “We think downloading mobile applications on an open
platform will be even bigger.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>OpenMoko isn’t the only outfit working on mobile Linux, which
actually has a larger ecosystem than one might expect. Among the companies
already out there are A La Mobile, Trolltech, PalmSource and Motorola. Nokia is
deeply involved in the open source Eclipse Foundation, as is Motorola.
Panasonic and NEC are the leading handset manufacturers using Linux.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have no idea what OpenMoko’s business plan is, assuming it has
one. And I’ve got no idea if OpenMoko will succeed in finding what likely
will be a niche market. But what makes it attractive, at least at the gut
level, is its seeming wide-eyed, brash but innocent, democratic view of what a
mobile phone should be. That’s refreshing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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