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Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing
- Aegean 17y agoIt looks good, but its not a life-changer. The reason I am saying this is that the earlier open moko project could make a significant impact in the phone market if it were to be successful. I guess they didn't get enough interest from users as they anticipated, or perhaps they couldn't make any deals like the commercial manufacturers.
- thingie 17y agoI wouldn't buy openmoko, as I saw it and it's not a cell phone I'd like to use. While the hardware is nice, hearing "sorry, I couldn't call you because I have flashed my moko and something is broken now" from my friends wasn't exactly the right marketing. On the other hand, this thing is very simple, should be complete (much less and simpler software then in moko), and it's actually something I'd buy. $99 is quite a lot for this, but I guess they can drive the price much lower, eventually. I believe that this can be much more life-changing than openmoko, as it's something working, simple, open, and worth having, even if I want to do something else then hacking a cellphone.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI'm amused by the two strong themes in the comments, which I've seen before when geeks are confronted with new devices: "If I'm not in the target demographic, then the people who designed it are idiots" "It doesn't make sense to pay more for a device that does a small number of things well, when you can buy something else for less that will do a large number of things poorly." Quite a good review, I'm intrigued by the hackability and I'm quite pleased to see people from the free software community (as in the recent litl webbook announcement) delivering actual products based on those tools and, in this case, free content too.