Sunday, September 7, 2008

Open to shenanigans!

I suppose most people where considering this when we heard of OpenMoko. Why cant I buy a barebones device and put my own platform on top of it?

LIMO and OpenMoko devices are shipping. In two weeks we may see production HTC hardware running a beta quality Android. Linux is on a many routers, wireless access points and the old POS Motorola A1200. When the integration of UIQ, S60 and MOAP-S is finished I want to walk into frys, buy a SGH-i900 with a boot loader and flash my own firmware. Symbian 10, OpenMoko and Android on one device. Why the hell not? People have been cooking Windows Mobile ROMs for HTC devices for years!

This has me wondering. I expect HTC to support firmware updates on the G1. After all it's not even supporting google talk/jabber when it ships. This is looking bad.