Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] [Fwd: [GeekUp] Teaching Kids: sign-up now]

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i'm emailing from my openmoko neo freerunner so apologies for being brief!
I don't really agree with Ste, I mean fundementally lots is happening on
the Iphone but lots is happening on other embedded systems android and
openmoko are some examples but symbian is another, maemo... there are loads
of active mobile platforms.
I think it's not such a great idea because the iphone is always a high end
platform. 

I'm loving barcamp liverpool...

Tim 

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:40:11 +0000, C L Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 16:21 +0000, Ian Lynch wrote:
>> Go for Google Android then. You can then develop your own custom 'phone
>> building on FOSS. 
> 
> Indeed, there are free alternatives - Android and OpenMoko, to name two.
> Android, however, needs to be jailbroken, which kind of defies the point
> of free software. OpenMoko, on the other hand, is entirely free.
> However, I don't have that sort of money to hand, so I use a simple
> phone; a marvellous piece of technology which is able to make and
> receive calls. However, I do wish that this Newall Green High School had
> decided to use free software instead. Although, as Chris points out, it
> would have probably been even better to simply get in a load of cheap
> subnotebooks, as they do certainly work. In fact, the YeeLoong
> notebook[1] should be released this month, and is entirely free
> software, including BIOS.
> 
> [1] http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html