[ILUG] Android gone Free

John P. Looney valen at tuatha.org
Wed Nov 12 11:25:08 GMT 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Marcin Iwiński <marcin.iwinski at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I'd stress that it's T-Mobile's most locked device. They ordered them
> from
> > HTC like that. It's a US telco, so to be expected. Curious HTC haven't
> sold
> > them unlocked yet, or made Android images for their other phones.
>
> sorry for the little off topic but I could not refrain from writing it -
> wouldn't that be sweet to have a decent HTC device (such as touch pro/G1/X1)
> that has full (fully accessed) debian on board with android on top :)  I
> still have a hope that such thing will happened one day.
> Wake me up when one of my dreams will become reality ;)
>

 Well, why wait ? OpenMoko phones run Android (badly), and you can now beat
Debian on top of it, if you need a more unix-like user space.

John


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