Google Gphone

[admin]

What are the chances of gPhone using OpenMoko?

Looks like Motorola's doing a wrong move again, going for MotoMagx. Maybe.

The Google Phone (or gPhone) is a Java/Linux based mobile phone or smartphone platform speculated to be connected with search engine giant Google. The speculation that Google would be entering the mobile phone market with a gPhone was first raised in December 2006 by writer Martha McKay in The Record.[1] Since that time, reports from both the BBC and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) noted that Google wanted "Google search and Google applications on mobile, and it is working hard every day to deliver that." Further, it's now believed that Google is "showing the prototype to cellphone manufacturers and network operators as it continues to hone the technical specifications." As many as 30 prototype gPhones are reported to be operating "in the wild".[2]
InformationWeek recently covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google has filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony, which could hint at the arrival of gPhone in the near future.[3] Network World reported that Google’s GPhone is actually an open source software phone operating system, rather than a specific hardware device like the iPhone.[2] Phoronix has reported that Google is "looking to team up with OpenMoko" for the gPhone.[4] OpenMoko is a project to create a smartphone platform using free software, including the Linux kernel.

[swifty]

What are the chances of gPhone using OpenMoko?

nothing is impossible in the opensource world
but to be sure, we have to wait a little bit.

[cesarcardoso]

There's only smoke, mirrors and contradictions in ALL gPhone rumors...

[ustrucx]

will google launch a real linux phone?
i drop my ming in the same nanoseccond they launch that!

[swifty]

there is nothing new, if i read this article correct:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7375818

i think it will improve OpenMoko.
what do you think?

the intressting part is:
"Finally, there are tools for individual developers. On Nov. 12, Google will release a free software development kit that will help programmers write applications."

lets see what comes up
i hope it will not be a JAVA based SDK.

[wyrm]

If gphone is really linux based as most people are talking, it will probably run on all ezx phones, including ming.

[cesarcardoso]

i think it will improve OpenMoko.

OHA's Android uses Apache license.

Unless FIC forces OpenMoko to change its license, and then Harald Welte and a lot of OpenMoko'ers would resign loudly, probably they'll do their own Linux phone stack.

Anyway, FIC isn't on the members list: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html

[swifty]

thanks for your point on the license.
this is not the opensource world that makes everything possible

[wyrm]

And Stefan Schmidt just said on IRC that there is no such agreement between OpenMoko and OHA/GPhone.

But anyway, if they really release code on Nov12, i bet that GphoneOS will run on the NEO long before any other "commercial" phone comes to market

OpenMoko (and hopefully GPhone) is *real* Open Source, that makes everything possible.

[cesarcardoso]

if they really release code on Nov12

They will release "an early look at the Android SDK" (sic) on Nov 12