Talking with some of the Moko folks at MobileCampLondon last year they were telling me about the issues with truly open mobile devices. Even Moko has a couple

Talking with some of the Moko folks at MobileCampLondon last year they were telling me about the issues with truly open mobile devices. Even Moko has a couple of closed components, namely the radio. The carriers and the FCC seem to be pretty against open source software radios for the sake of the networks. Remember the same networks that carry commercial traffic have priority bands for Police/Fire/Ambulance/Military. Cheap consumer available devices with patchable software radios devices could be a very bad thing for that.