[OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

[Phil! Gold]

* andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> [2011-01-04 08:49 +0100]:
> AFAIK Maemo, Palm's Webos and Android are all about the same level of
> "open", i.e. linux-based but including some closed source drivers or
> libraries.

I don't know much about Maemo phones, but Palm has a more open approach to
the OS than most (maybe all) Android manufacturers.  Apps for Android are
limited to the Java environment that Android provides and accessing the OS
requires jailbreaking the phone, which most manufacturers don't like.
Palm (now HP) allows access to the base OS as a policy, although the code
for their UI is still proprietary.

Mostly, what I like about having a Palm phone is not having to jailbreak
it in order to do (more or less) whatever I want to it.

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