Interesting People mailing list archives
Re: OpenMoko phone
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:50:21 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet () killermarmot com> Date: October 2, 2007 8:57:59 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org> Subject: Re: [IP] OpenMoko phone
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org>
it will be most interesting to see if the OpenMoko phone can get FCC type approval. without that, it isn't legal in the US.
The OpenMoko uses standard, off-the-shelf GSM hardware and software. There should be no problem getting it approved, it won't differ from any other phone in that regard. The GSM stack is locked-away and proprietary, something the free software folks are not enthusiastic about - but they understand the need for it.
For the curious, we've done a couple of looks at that phone (shipped to us here in the US, incidentally...):
http://lwn.net/Articles/247187/http://lwn.net/Articles/251519/ [ NOTE only viewable by paid subscribers ($5/month djf]
jon ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Current thread:
- OpenMoko phone David Farber (Oct 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OpenMoko phone David Farber (Oct 02)
- Re: OpenMoko phone David Farber (Oct 03)
- Re: OpenMoko phone David Farber (Oct 05)