[sf-lug] Cisco's iPhone

[Sameer Verma]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting John Lowry (johnlowry at gmail.com):
>
>   
>> Cisco got busted again violating the GPL and so not they are forced to fess
>> up. This going to mean third party development for their phone.
>>
>> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/cisco-responds-to-iphone-gpl-clusterlovemaking--open-source-wifi-phone-coming-230570.php
>>     
>
> Wow, imagine a cheap pocket-sized WiFi smartphone capable of doing not
> just vendor-written SIP but also running other arbitrary VoIP code of
> your choosing, forever.  Cool.
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Linksys+WIP300
>
> Pity it's not dual-use:  You can't cancel your cellular subscription,
> quite yet.  ;->
>
>   
In a complementary vein is the Neo1973/OpenMoko. It is network unlocked 
at $350 (ships in March per this announcement 
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/001586.html) 
and except for the GSM and GPS bits, all other software ("the stack") is 
going to be open source.

It doesn't have Wi-Fi, but does have Bluetooth. Discussions on their 
list suggests that Wi-Fi might be coming in a subsequent release.

http://www.openmoko.com/
Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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