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Whoa, hold up - that's OpenMoko's hardware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko), the Neo1973. It predates Android, an
by rkapsoro 7y ago
Whoa, hold up - that's OpenMoko's hardware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko), the Neo1973. It predates Android, and was a serious attempt to use commodity free software (primarily Linux, GNU, and various GNOME components, I believe) to do a fully open source smartphone. Bear in mind this was in the latter days of things like Symbian, Blackberry, and Palm Treo, so it was pretty seriously ahead of its time. There's been a long line of similar attempts by various industry actors since.
I have one in my collection somewhere; I even tried to use it a couple of times as a daily driver, but sadly, the project was just too alpha at the time for that.
Certainly interesting that Sun was trying to use it (as relatively open hardware, from a hacker-friendly OSS project, it's was well suited to a skunkworks like that) for their JavaFX work, but it certainly wasn't their own "JavaFX Mobile smartphone".