Developer preview
From Openmoko
- The text below describes the status as of July 2007. Please look at Community Updates for a more recent status summary.
Developer preview is the name of the Neo1973 GTA01 that Openmoko is offering during Neo1973 Phase 1.
To clarify some misconceptions about what this is, please read this article.
The product status is the earliest possible time in development at which we can provide functional hardware with a very early, very incomplete software stack.
In other words, this is the 0.01 release, if people were thinking of a pure Free Software project :)
A Nokia 1100 or other very basic phone will be much more functional for some time. At the moment it does not work as an even impractical phone. It will get better, especially if you help us!
So please think twice if this point in time is really the right time for you to order the GTA01. Remember, we will have a much more complete product at some later point, with better hardware!
What you can expect
- a functional bootloader with support for firmware upgrades
- a functional Linux kernel with basic drivers for the various hardware subsystems, with small bugs here and there
- a basic, simple linux distribution based on OpenEmbedded, that you have to install yourself as rootfs image using USB DFU
- all the source code that we have at this point in time, and the corresponding build system
- mailing lists
What you CAN NOT expect yet
- reliable means of making phone calls, esp. not from the UI
- reliable means of sending/receiving SMS, esp. not from the UI
- integrated GPRS data access
- bluetooth integration (basic bluez driver works)
- proper power management (i.e. no reasonable battery life yet)
- ringtone (or other) profile management
- network preferences (call deflection, manual operator selection, ...)
- a complete application framework where third party application developers can write apps that easily integrate with the OpenMoko world
