Sating my lust

[mdlbear]

It shall be mine! (Bwahahaha!)

Not surprisingly, their site is incredibly slow right now. Be very patient if you submit an order -- it took several minutes before the "order completed" page came through.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

So what OS(es) does it run? I'm assuming the phone module is something closed-source, since Great White Father hates it when you hack the phone system... or is it?

I've always wanted a phone I could (a) ssh into and (b) set up with the Ultimate Answering Machine, which could ring, trip to voicemail with or without delay, reject, or drop a call based on Caller*ID, time of day, phase of moon, etc... I first began to lust after such an idea the day Sparc 20's came out with ISDN interfaces... now that viable palmtops exist, the idea of doing it on something vaguely resembling a Blackberry for something affordable...

If I could get something with a hash prompt, bidirectional network access, a phone interface, and that would run, say, Opera (something Javascript-able) that I could put in my pocket, for, say, a couple three Benjamins.... I would be *so* on that. Laptop on a plane trip? Whatchoo talkin' about? It would need to have the "wireless off" feature, though... I *really* liked that about my Blackberry when I was down there... it meant that I had at least one thing that could tell me the time and not (supposedly) upset the Captain's instruments... (of course, what that's *really* about is upsetting the flight attendants and the nervous nellies at the FAA and FCC who have no idea how this stuff really interacts and are scared to find out... )

[mdlbear]

The GSM and GPS modules are the only closed-source ones. It's basically Linux 2.6 with an embedded version of Gnome (with a real X11 VGA display) on the user interface. IIRC the browser is MiniMo.

It doesn't have WiFi yet, unfortunately; we'll have to wait until October for that. It does, however, have both USB gadget and USB host interfaces (the USB host may be on the "development board" that ships with the "advanced" kit).

I'm pretty sure I can get Asterisk to run on it, though...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

So how does it network? GPRS? or just USB?

Asterisk could be interesting...

[mdlbear]

AFAIK it'll do either...

I was having trouble finding the wiki from the main page; turns out the developer portal is http://www.openmoko.org/ and the wiki is http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

It's also flaky at the moment. Probably slashdotted. (That's what they get for using a wiki that doesn't build static html offline.)