3"+ touchscreen (AMOLED?), 2/3 physical buttons on the front, MicroSD expansion + 8/16GB on board, removable battery/SIM card and most importantly Android with a decent custom UI/skin please.
It is funny. This is something I have always thought of as the ultimate idea. Every time a new phone is released there are always a million things that could have been done better according to “The community”.
But now that I see the idea in the flesh, I am not really so sure about it brilliancy. I mean, how much is open source really good for? Admittedly Firefox is a brilliant browser, but look at the other serious open source projects. Primarily Linux is a near catastrophe. I mean, it has been around for ages, but essentially it is an operating system designed by geeks for geeks, and as such it has zero mass market appeal. I mean no offence to Linux as I myself like to play around with it from time to time, but I guess you catch my drift. My point is it has not reached nearly the critical mass necessary to make it feasible for the average consumer. This is fine for software since the only real cost is the development cost, and this is either sponsored or voluntary in the case of open source. The problem comes when you try and apply this idea in a project where you actually have to put in some serious cash to get a product to market. I am not sure that a GeekPhone will be able to make a turnover that is comparable to the cost of its production, and it the end it could mean financial ruin for Mozilla.
Of course, Mozilla being mighty clever fellers, I am sure it would never come to this.
Also, I wish to emphasize that my use of the term "geek" is not used with any negative intonation, as I see myself as one of these.
Does anyone remember the Simpsons episode where Homer meets his long lost brother, who's a car manufacturer, and he lets Homer loose on designing his own ideal car? If you do, you know where this could go.
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it seems the success of firefox has gotten to the heads of the mozilla staff
maybe if they focused more on improving their main project which although improving is still a fair distance behind opera and not on ridiculous concepts such as this
Would be nice if that idea made it through this "process".
Having just got my N96 today the only other thing I would really like to see is quality components used in the phones construction, no cheap plastics etc :)
@Keldon fair points, but why oh why buy an N96? The Samsung i8510 is virtually identical but better in almost every way - and we told you this in the reviews ;)
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