[Cialug] hackable cell phone

chris chris at ia.gov
Mon Nov 26 21:08:14 CST 2007


Perhaps you mean this?  http://www.openmoko.org/

chris

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Seems like there was some discussion months back about a hackable cell
> phone, I thought it may be called "Boost" but maybe not. There was
> some application you could download that allowed you to share presence
> information with others (which probably isn't a great idea) because
> the cell phone provided a relatively cheap data plan.
>
> Yes, I know about android and I've downloaded the dev kit and done the
> hello world, and yes I'm glad I didn't buy an iPhone. However, in the
> meantime I'm curious if there is a hackable cell phone, in the sense
> that you can write your own applications (either stand alone or web
> enabled). Did I remember the name right (searching my e-mail folder
> yields no results, so I suspect I've got it wrong) and did I
> understand correctly that this phone is hackable?
>
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