You have to give attribution of some of the concepts behind the first iPhone to this project. I remember when the iPhone was unveiled, I immediately thought it

You have to give attribution of some of the concepts behind the first iPhone to this project. I remember when the iPhone was unveiled, I immediately thought it was a better funded, better polished clone of Openmoko. Apple even stole some of the visual design elements. The speaker grill was almost identical: http://gizmodo.com/229243/openmoko-smartphone-did-they-have-a-time-machine-or-what http://gizmodo.com/229243/openmoko-smartphone-did-they-have-... Openmoko was also promoting the "app store" concept much earlier than Apple, which tried to prevent third party native apps the first year of the iPhone. From a 2006 linuxfordevices.com article about openmoko (remember this was before the iPhone was unveiled): "The Neo1973 is based on a Samsung S3C2410 SoC (system-on-chip) application processor, powered by an ARM9 core. It will have 128MB of RAM, and 64MB of flash, along with an upgradable 64MB MicroSD card. Typical of Chinese phone designs, the Neo1973 sports a touchscreen, rather than a keypad -- in this case, an ultra-high resolution 2.8-inch VGA (640 x 480) touchscreen. "Maps look stunning on this screen," Moss-Pultz said. The phone features an A-GPS (assisted GPS) receiver module connected to the application processor via a pair of UARTs. The commercial module has a closed design, but the API is apparently open. Similarly, the phone's quad-band GSM/GPRS module, built by FIC, runs the proprietary Nucleus OS on a Texas Instruments baseband powered by an ARM7 core. It communicates with Linux over a serial port, using standard "AT" modem commands. The Neo1973 will charge when connected to a PC via USB. It will also support USB network emulation, and will be capable of routing a connected PC to the Internet, via its GPRS data connection. [...] Moss-Pultz adds, "Applications are the ringtones of the future." [...] As for additional software components, Moss-Pultz admits, "Quite a lot is there, and quite a lot is not there. We're hoping to change this." In addition to a dialer, phonebook, media player, and application manager, the stack will likely include the Minimo browser [...] He adds, "Mobile phones are the PCs of the 21st century, in terms of processing power and broadband network access. "