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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostActually, the more powerful devices are MORE hackable, and MORE flexible.
First, it isn't hacking if you actually have source code and documentation, but more because of the bigger user base and bigger organizations providing code and documentation. A couple of guys in their garage can make some code, but not much. Take a look at all the code that comes through code aurora (qualcomm). Also, you would be really surprised at just how closely hardware vendors (like sony, lg, etc) follow the reference designs.
Second, when you're dealing with hardware that hasn't been "good" for 3-4 years, its really difficult to come up with motivation to actually do anything. So yeah, a bunch of zealots will probably buy this thing, and they'll be really into it for... a week. Then it will sit on their bench forever.
Yes, there are some bits of current android devices that are binary, but in the grand scheme of things, they are relatively few, and dropping.
Also, it isn't like these guys will be *allowed* or *able* to provide a full stack of source code for OMAP3. There are as many parts of that that TI will force them to keep closed under NDA, as qualcomm does, so in truth, our high-end Android devices are *JUST* as open source as this will be.
In fact.... OMAP3.... has a... get this.... POWERVR SGX 530!!!!
Have fun everyone, that is *THE* GPU that is absolutely the LEAST open source friendly of ALL. Even NVIDIA is better.
LOL
Sorry that something like Maemo is not for you, but at least you're in luck that Android seems to be in abundance.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostSo yeah, a bunch of zealots will probably buy this thing, and they'll be really into it for... a week. Then it will sit on their bench forever.
Originally posted by droidhacker View PostAlso, it isn't like these guys will be *allowed* or *able* to provide a full stack of source code for OMAP3. There are as many parts of that that TI will force them to keep closed under NDA, as qualcomm does, so in truth, our high-end Android devices are *JUST* as open source as this will be.
Originally posted by droidhacker View PostIn fact.... OMAP3.... has a... get this.... POWERVR SGX 530!!!!
Have fun everyone, that is *THE* GPU that is absolutely the LEAST open source friendly of ALL. Even NVIDIA is better.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostBetter question: What's the point of LTE when you don't have enough CPU power to even handle HSPA?
so with the neo900 using a much faster and newer cpu, it should definitely be able to talk to the modem fast enough.
and my n800 with its 400mhz omap2 could handle 54mbps wifi without issue. so i still fail to see how cpu "power" is directly related to modem performance.
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Originally posted by nathan View PostMy Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is a QWERTY and ofcourse has LTE, so Neo900 is not the only LTE QWERTY phone in existence.
At this point I'm on my 2nd Droid4. Was hoping the phonebloks or OnePlus guys would release a Qwerty phone. We'll see...
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