One specific idea, pre-approved for Y Combinator funding

Re:One specific idea, pre-approved for Y Combinator funding by budu3 on Monday April 16, 2007 @10:15PM (#13509)

Check out OpenMoko http://openmoko.com/press/index.html. I think most phone companies have a vested interest in keeping their phones closed but OpenMoko might be a good alternative. It might be the 'firefox' of mobile phones.

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Re:One specific idea, pre-approved for Y Combinator funding by lindsayrgwatt on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @02:30PM (#13711)

It'll be interesting to see if OpenMoko can make a start of it. I used to work in the wireless business and nobody is going to put their operating systems on their phone.

What will be interesting is whether they can be the operating system that a bunch of the Taiwanese ODMs use to become serious players in branded handsets (rather than just making them for other people).

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Re:One specific idea, pre-approved for Y Combinator funding by budu3 on Saturday April 21, 2007 @12:23AM (#15363)

You're right. The big players might be hesitant to open up their OSs but from what I hear even they know how bad their platforms are. I think some crazy team will take OpenMoko and run with it which will cause the big guys to sit up and take notice.

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