Open cell phones

November 21, 2005 in Consumer devices by Administrator | No comments

This article presents the efforts of new hacker communities trying to implement open mobile platforms. As it is for digital broadcasting “terminals”, cell phones tend to be closed platforms for which current “incumbents” have the exclusive power to innovate. In this article however, they claim that only open platforms will pave the way to future applications. We’ve seen that model work pretty well for the Internet, haven’t we? Could this also apply to mobile networks? And digital mobile networks such as DVB-H, DMB or MediaFLO?
 
BTW Surj Patel (the guy interviewed) is also the conference chair of the very promising O’reilly ETEL event next january.