Entries for January 2008

In its announcement, OpenMoko writes “. . . at CES we will formally preview GTA02 to the public. We are doing this at an invitation-only media event, and not the general show floor.”

The GTA02 model was renamed FreeRunner and according to OpenMoko will be “previewed at CES and ship later this spring– first to developers and then to end users as software for the new hardware features becomes available.”

OpenMoko may be looking to build a larger community of Linux software developers as it begins to to make its phone consumer-friendly.

First came the fervent and persistent rumours of a Google mobile phone.

Then, just six short weeks ago, the search supremo (and just-about-everything-else-online supremo) announced there would not be a ‘Google phone' per se, but rather dozens of them from a raft of mobile manufacturers, and all built on an open Linux-based mobile phone platform named Android.

Now things are picking up steam, with Gizmodo posting a snap of one of the rumoured score of prototype phones circulating around the Googleplex and in the r&d labs of the mobile makers.