Your next (open) mobile, what platform?

[KhaaL]

I'm curious on peoples mobile habits here. Since I got my SE t610 my mobile habits never was the same really. It had a calendar, java support, wapping and a bunch of other cool features. since a while ago I have what I call my precious, a K750i. I can check gmail from it, browse maps, it got a mp3 player (but not ogg, grrr!) a calendar and a nifty note function.

But I will switch away from SE because it's simply not open. I want my mobiles full functionality instead of having to pay for a new one to get software upgrades and some extra hardware functionality. Besides, I want a mobile that I can syncronize fully with my system (which I can't currently). But now I'm torn between the android and openmoko platforms. And I think I will go with android for the wider support and adoption.

Anyone else reasoning like me?

[Rhubarb]

Ooooh yeah, I'll be getting my openmoko phone soon. Mainly because FIC encourage you to tinker with their mobile phone hardware as well the software (exposed I2C bus, jtag connector).

[Kowalski_GT-R]

I'm deeply interested in these things, but personally I think open mobile platforms are at an early stage.

I'm fine with a crappy gprs mobile, and waiting for Ubuntu Mobile to come out and see how it fares: it will be fun afterwards...:)

[drsaamah]

wait... is that a joke? Is there such thing as a ubuntu mobile platform in the works? Because that would be flippin amazing!

[KhaaL]

It's in the works AFAIK, but I don't know what platforms it supports (I don't think it can be installed on Neo1973?)

[Kareema]

I'm waiting for the Neo Freerunner (GTA02). Openmoko has started its development platform over a year ago and I have followed the progress for some months now. It's all I expect from a truly free environment and the phone has all the features I actually need. Don't know how "free" the Android platform will be...

[KhaaL]

I've also found out about Freerunner and decided to save my money for it :)

Found some cool youtube videos of openmoko in action, check them out here (http://youtube.com/profile?user=mokoNinja) and here (http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BAB67B38A0C609EE).