[Noisebridge-discuss] interesting semi-open phone and development platform

[Ian Atha]

I have one of those. Sadly so.

They sold it claiming it can run Android but at the time I bought it,
Android wasn't publicly available. After begging and claiming that
it's false advertising their their vice-general counsel met with him.
He promised that Engineering would sent me the Android firmware. They
sent me a binary blob along with a Windows utility to flash the
firmware (they didn't mention Windows as a requirement when I bought
it).

After flashing it . . . the Android OS is half-baked with a lot of
features that _make_ it Android (such as battery management, smart
out-of-memory notifications, et cetera) missing.

They've been very unresponsive to me request to return it (although I
was promised it's an option) and they seem to be unable to figure out
(correctly) how much my refund ought to be.

The Android implementation has improved but I got so turned off
initially that I didn't spend more time on their platform.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 17:26, Michael Shiloh <mshiloh at expression.edu> wrote:
> still hurting from the loss of openmoko, i keep my eyes open for these
> things.
>
> here's a phone that can be used to develop on, which i assume means it
> can  be reprogammed at the lowest levels and is unlocked, but could be
> wrong.
>
> price ($400) is less than Andriod, no?
>
> anyway, anyone know anything about these guys?
>
> http://www.ziilabs.com/products/platforms/ZiiEGG.aspx
>
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