Submission + - Open (geeks)phone, but not OpenMoko (wordpress.com) 3
relliker writes: Geeks always wanted "open" phones. Then came Openmoko's Neo 1973 in 2007 followed by the Neo Freerunner in 2008. While both phones never made a big hit worldwide as usable end-user phones due to their under-developed OSes they remain two of the very few truly open phones and loved by their community who are still hacking around different flavours of Linux and phone stacks onto the device. Now, however, other "open" devices are coming out providing new hacker playgrounds without the need to circumvent a ton of developer un-friendly closedness first. Following on the heels of Openmoko's openness (although not too open) comes the geeksphone ONE, an Android (for now) developer-friendly phone that does not need to be rooted and hacked just to get into it. With more modern hardware than the 1973 and the FreeRunner which includes a sliding 40-key qwerty keyboard, all the modern magic of camera, GPS, accelerometers, wifi, 3G etc. and a relatively cheap price this could be the do-it-all smart-phone that really starts off THE open revolution so long awaited by developers and geeks worldwide in the smart-phone scene.
