Shiny linux-based phone... The Neo Freerunner!

[Zeroth]

Aziz, legally, all GSM providers(which I believe is all of them except for Bell and Telus), must allow unlocked devices on the networks. If they don't, contact the Canadian version of the FCC. They'll listen, trust me. I used to work for Rogers, and we have to allow any compatible GSM phone on our network, so long as the user buys a rogers sim card and a phone plan. I prefer having paid full-price for an unlocked phone, because then I'm not beholden to Rogers. Support, would be the openmoko forums... like any other opensource service. Or, Koolu, where I bought mine from.

[Aziz]

Damn, I'm with Telus. Maybe I should switch to rogers after my contract? My brother has an old chocolote sliding phone that i'd like to have, but it's from bell.

[md]

Dan @ 2008-07-25, 5:12 am wrote:

I got an E-TEN gloFiish M700 a month or so ago, it has Wifi (b/g), GPS, FM radio, 2MP cam, Bluetooth, touch screen, full qwerty keybord, 128mb flash memory and 8gb sd card memory.

The down side to it is that shamefully it runs windows mobile OS, does not support 3g (only grps and edge) and is only 400mhz.

http://www.etencorp.com/products/Communication/m700.php

How much did you pay for it?

[Dan]

I think it came out to about $450 with shiping and tax, i think targetdirect sells them for about $425 CAD.

There are some newer models of it out now that you might want to look in to if you are interested that support 3g and some other goodies.

I would recommend waiting tho if you are going to buy as i think some newer stuff will be coming out this year like the android OS phones.

[md]

Oh I'm not getting a new phone for a while - just wondering how it compares to the Freerunner price wise.

[Zeroth]

I just got the freerunner today. A bit buggy in the UI and some of the stuff just doesn't work. But its pretty cool, chock full of features for a cheap prices.

[andrew.]

Nice one Zeroth! I'm sure the UI and the bugs will be ironed out fast. It's open-source lol.