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Openmoko smartphone reborn as hackable GTA04

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German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro. The Openmoko GTA04 is available as a finished phone or as a board that slips into earlier Openmoko Neo Freerunner GTA01 and GTA02 cases, providing an 800MHz Texas Instruments DM3730 processor and a full range of sensors and wireless features....

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I stopped reading when I saw the price. Ridiculous
@nikkels -

Really?

The single item price does seem pretty high, but the per-item price for group buys doesn't seem out of line with other phones, at least not by US pricing.

Mind you, most people in the US have no idea what they're actually paying for their phones as most cell plans are set up to keep you from every knowing that.
The sensors are interesting - barometer/thermometer and compass. Also has composite video output.
not ridiculous, but a sad reality. i am pretty sure the project doesn't have the kind of funding needed to subsidize developer hardware and they would make it cheaper if they could.

greetings, eMBee.

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