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I've come across several open handheld projects. Does anyone know which are available, practical, and supported (at least by active user communities)? * Padora

I've come across several open handheld projects. Does anyone know which are available, practical, and supported (at least by active user communities)? * Padora and Pyra, both by Pandora: https://pyra-handheld.com/ https://pyra-handheld.com/ * Jolla phones, running Sailfish OS: http://jolla.com/ http://jolla.com/ * IndiePhone by Aral Balkan; I think this one might be defunct: http://indiephone.eu/ http://indiephone.eu/ / http://indietech.org/ http://indietech.org/ * GSMK CryptoPhone: http://www.cryptophone.de/ http://www.cryptophone.de/ * Revolution by GeekskPhone (which has some connection to PGP?): http://www.geeksphone.com/ http://www.geeksphone.com/ * GTA01 and GTA02 by OpenMoko; obsolete? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01 / http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02 * GTA04 FOSS by OpenPhoenux; successor or otherwise related to OpenMoko?: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/ http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/ * Neo900 by (OpenPhoenux?); "aims to provide a Fremantle (Maemo 5) compatible successor to the N900: http://neo900.org/ http://neo900.org/ * Fairphone; focuses on 'fair trade' supply chain: https://www.fairphone.com/ https://www.fairphone.com/ * Camelephon: Android stripped down for security?: http://chamelephon.com/ http://chamelephon.com/

bigbugbag 11y ago
I don't know for the other but the pandora has a fairly active community, look at the wiki and software repository: http://www.pandorawiki.org/ http://www.pandorawiki.org/ http://repo.openpandora.org/ http://repo.openpandora.org/ (community project) Also forum: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/categories/pandora.198/ https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/categories/pandora.198/ -edit- from wikipedia: Where source code is available, instead of emulation source ports were created for the Pandora; notable examples are Jagged Alliance 2 and Homeworld. The Pandora community is also notable for the development of tools required to achieve several successful static recompilations of complex binary software to the Pandora platform. For instance, in 2014 a ARM architecture version of the 1998 video game StarCraft was generated by static recompilation from the original x86 version. In 2015, a similarly port of Diablo II followed.
0xcde4c3db 11y ago
The only devices on that list for which I could find credible order pages are the Jolla and FairPhone 2, which seem to have limited distribution and carrier compatibility outside Europe. Pandora is definitely released and has a solid community, but is seemingly not shipping anymore, probably because that would tie up money earmarked for Pyra production. Pyra is quasi-available in a prototype/developer/fundraising version; production version probably to ship later this year. The GTA04 and Neo900 are board-only products (i.e. you need an OpenMoko or N900 to install them into) and don't seem to actually be shipping right now anyway.
- bigbugbag 11y ago
  The pandora was supposed to not be available once the produced units were sold. If you really want one, it won't be long before some of the people buying pyras sell their pandoras.

bigbugbag 11y ago

I don't know for the other but the pandora has a fairly active community, look at the wiki and software repository: http://www.pandorawiki.org/ http://www.pandorawiki.org/ http://repo.openpandora.org/ http://repo.openpandora.org/ (community project) Also forum: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/categories/pandora.198/ https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/categories/pandora.198/ -edit- from wikipedia: Where source code is available, instead of emulation source ports were created for the Pandora; notable examples are Jagged Alliance 2 and Homeworld. The Pandora community is also notable for the development of tools required to achieve several successful static recompilations of complex binary software to the Pandora platform. For instance, in 2014 a ARM architecture version of the 1998 video game StarCraft was generated by static recompilation from the original x86 version. In 2015, a similarly port of Diablo II followed.

0xcde4c3db 11y ago

The only devices on that list for which I could find credible order pages are the Jolla and FairPhone 2, which seem to have limited distribution and carrier compatibility outside Europe. Pandora is definitely released and has a solid community, but is seemingly not shipping anymore, probably because that would tie up money earmarked for Pyra production. Pyra is quasi-available in a prototype/developer/fundraising version; production version probably to ship later this year. The GTA04 and Neo900 are board-only products (i.e. you need an OpenMoko or N900 to install them into) and don't seem to actually be shipping right now anyway.

bigbugbag 11y ago
The pandora was supposed to not be available once the produced units were sold. If you really want one, it won't be long before some of the people buying pyras sell their pandoras.