Hi! > | ... > | > And if the only criteria for hardware-that-matters is hackability, then > | > Nokia 770 can be flashed with your own kernel and rootfs. Check > | > www.maemo.org > | > | I agree that Nokia is doing the right thing (tm) here (and > | THANKS!). (Excluding charging circuity, but someone is going to fix > | that). Unfortunately Motorola is not doing the right thing... > --- > > Note that the 770 doesn't talk to a public network, over regulated > frequencies and power ranges, and isn't constrained by, for instance, > the GSM standards, and they're not constrained by the requirements > of middlemen (carriers), so it's not really an apples-to-apples > comparison. Yes, 770 is in easier position... > That said, I do respect the way they have been working directly in > community projects. ...still, publicly downloadable SDK for userland software on a1200/a780 would be nice. I do not think userland software can break power levels/frequencies, so you should be okay, and symbian / windowsCE certainly solved that problem before you... To sum it up "it is nice that motorola uses linux, but you could do a bit better". Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
