OpenMoko's FreeRunner interface gets peeked, inspected

For those folks who don't mind -- nay, who strongly prefer -- a terminal screen on their smartphone, we know you've already thrown down the plastic on OpenMoko's FreeRunner. If you're going insane waiting to get your hands on it, what better to do than read through a remarkably thorough writeup detailing the user interface and all the goop behind the pretty scenes that makes this thing tick? Oh, and if you're just now getting up the courage to see what the brouhaha is all about, you've chosen the perfect time to get schooled. See that read link? Hit it.

[Via BoingBoing]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 11th 2008 2:42AM]

Wow. i feel so alone. This post makes me happy that OpenMoko is still forging ahead... but sad that CDMA is still my favorite poison. I know some Android phones will be CDMA-friendly... I was just a little saddened that OpenMoko seems so GSM-centric... altho I understand why. It really is a more open-natured architecture.

I'd love to be able to have a compiler/api ON the phone I was developing apps for. To be able to tweak a function or 2 and test it while at the in-laws would be pretty slick. I know there's onboardC I could load for my Centro... but a straight up Linux phone OS is something I pine for.