> can't we just make our own open source phone This seems have nothing to do with LG's move. On the contrary, what drives LG to leave smart phone also enables

> can't we just make our own open source phone This seems have nothing to do with LG's move. On the contrary, what drives LG to leave smart phone also enables the open source smartphone: the lowering of manufacturing puts more emphasis on software reconfigurability to the targeted audience of open source smartphone. LG cannot sustain because they don't have a strong software product to make their smartphone profitable. And open source smartphone is about open source anyway. It should not be compared to mass market products anyway.