OpenMoko is making everything much simpler. While waiting for Android or the new open Symbian mobile OS, they have released their FreeRunner smartphone, which has a Linux based OS and it’s said to be open in hardware and software.

OpenMoko’s open platform will pretty much let you do whatever you want with their new handset. As long as you know what you are doing in terms of mobile OS and applications. With this Linux platform the FreeRunner will have, you will get lots of options to choose from and this might be strange to cope with at first. After all how many of us get buyers block when facing too many supermarket choices? But why not being able to choose from more?

If you get an OpenMoko smartphone you will be offered three software stacks to work with. The original OpenMoko software was built on top of GNOME Mobile and Embedded technologies with the GTK+ toolkit included.
A different stack has been built on top of Trolltech’s Qtopia mobile environment while the third software stack will be based on FreeSmartphone.org APIs.

So on the FreeRunner you will get a choice of software, some minutes and SMS messages and unlimited data. I am speculating on the plan’s details but I am sure you will have three software versions to choose from.

But don’t mind me trying to explain to you which is which. Get a FreeRunner for a test drive and choose the perfect OS for you. Further more, if you are a developer or programmer, I am sure you already have an idea of what I am talking about, and can’t wait tweaking your favorite
OS on your next OpenMoko handset.

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