Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Smartphones and freedom

[A.J. Venter]

Thanks everybody for the significant amount of useful information. I
am really glad to hear about FDroid and Replicant - we need to get
these projects some more exposure !
Seems to me that most immediately - the biggest way I can contribute
here - is to help grow FDroid's applist ... so time to start writing
some decent free replacements for some of the more needed apps. Top of
my head (and from things I personally need) a decent unrestricted
sound/voice-recorder app and a file-manager with astro's features and
a free license jumps to mind.

I think it's about time I ended my coding hiatus... I have work to do :D

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Jason Self <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Using the first google android developer phone, the ADP1 or even the
>> htc dream, you could make/receive calls using only free software.
>
> Didn't they still have the proprietary GSM firmware though?
>
> There is a project [1] working to create a free software replacement for that,
> and the Neo Freerunner is one of their target devices. I understand that it's
> already possible to use it to make phone calls.
>
> An episode of the Software Freedom Law Show talked about free software on
> mobile phones, FYI.
>
> [1] http://bb.osmocom.org/
> [2] http://softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2010/jan/19/0x1F/
>



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A.J. Venter
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