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

[Michael Shiloh]

Thanks for the report and the warning. Yuk.

So sorry you had to be the one to find out.

M

Ian Atha wrote:
> 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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