{"id":226,"date":"2007-07-26T02:18:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T01:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2007\/07\/26\/openmoko-developer-hardware\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","slug":"openmoko-developer-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2007\/07\/26\/openmoko-developer-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenMoko developer hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of the OpenMoko platform, an open source mobile phone. It uses linux as the operating system built on a fairly open hardware platform. (Some of the drivers are closed source, apparently due to licensing restrictions)<\/p>\n<p>You can buy a developer unit right now, although the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openmoko.org\/wiki\/Developer_preview\">currently incomplete features<\/a> should (rightly) discourage all but the most enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmoko.com\/\">http:\/\/www.openmoko.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think when the software is more complete that this could be a great mobile phone. The idea of having almost total control over the operation of a mobile phone seems like a very clever idea.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas that came to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the onboard GPS to perform actions when in particular locations (automatically forward calls to my home number when I&#8217;m at home for instance, or automatically switch off the phone when I&#8217;m at the cinema. Possibly\u00c2\u00a0 use different answer phone messages when in different places)<\/li>\n<li>Simplified user interfaces with more active assistance for people who only want a basic phone<\/li>\n<li>A system that uses the location system to look up things on google maps. (like nearby restaurants that are open and have good reviews)<\/li>\n<li>games that use the physical location as part of the gameplay. (Like a treasure hunt maybe?)<\/li>\n<li>More advanced actions when people call (like bringing up events that they are connected with, or documents they&#8217;ve sent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just some ideas I thought up as I was writing this, there are probably other better ideas around. Some of these ideas have been done, but I think that the openmoko scheme has a number of advantages over other hardware.<br \/>\nI really want one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Although I will probably wait until the software stabilises and they add a camera. The current plans include a new hardware revision in the Autumn (with wifi) and then more models next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of the OpenMoko platform, an open source mobile phone. It uses linux as the operating system built on a fairly open hardware platform. (Some of the drivers are closed source, apparently due to licensing restrictions) You can buy a developer unit right now, although the list of currently incomplete features should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45,51,54],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-linux","tag-mobile-phone","tag-openmoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}