Build your own Mobile phone?
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Here’s an open source mobile phone, OpenMoko, that has also provided for free (under a ShareAlike Creative Commons licence) the CAD files for the enclosure - so even if you don’t feel up to reprogramming the Linux, you can redesign the case. Files are available as IGES STEP and ProE. The philosophy of this move is:
Mobile phones, currently closed and self limited, will rival broadband computers. When based on Open standards, they will deliver ubiquitous computing and vanish.
Ubiquitous computing means more than computing wherever you wander: It means knowing the locale, weaving seamlessly into the local fabric, and vanishing.
Devices disappear when developers have unrestricted access to hardware.