Bob Mottram wrote:
2008/11/25 Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunnerI might get something like this eventually, mainly due to the software being open source, but I'm not a big mobile phone user and only have the most minimal mobile phone, which cost £7 and is intended primarily for use in developing countries.
Haha. My phone before the freerunner was the Nokia 3310, for those who this means nothing to this basic phone model achieved almost cult status for it's simplicity, durability and longevity.
But thy are old now and featureless (or feature free :) ) so I figured getting a freerunner would be a good way of moving forward high end free software mobile phone development, so far I'm really pleased I got it.
One of the cleverest hacks I have seen is the ability to play Doom, using the 2 axis accelerometers in the phone to control movement and the touch screen to control actions. It is very surreal and perhaps surprisingly, very stable. I think the long term idea is to get network play working!
Whether you want a phone that plays Doom is a good question, but cameras and music players are routinely built into phones these days so it's hard to work out what people actually want from a device they call a phone.
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