OpenMoko has announced plans to launch the Linux-based FreeRunner mobile phone on July 4. The highly-anticipated open source handset will be distributed through OpenMoko's web-based store and will begin shipping on July 7. The FreeRunner will also be available from several vendors in Europe and India.
OpenMoko has put a huge effort positioning itself as the open source leader and to bring the first truly "free" Smartphone and release it before Google or Nokia! Google has brought together more than 30 cellular and wireless industry partners in the Open Handset Alliance to design and build open mobile devices based on the open source Google Android platform which is delayed once again?
Needless to mention Nokia's decision to purchase the rest of Symbian, make it open source and finally offer it for free. It is complex process and Nokia expecting the first Symbian Foundation ph... .. .
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Jul 03 2008, 06:22 PM
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