[Cialug] hackable cell phone

Brandon Griffis brandongriffis at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 16:38:24 CST 2007


Wow.. look at that.  Linux is so easy to use that even ignorant bigots are
joining mailing lists for it!  :-P

-Brandon

On Nov 27, 2007 7:27 AM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com> wrote:

>  unless you have verizon! verizon is gay and doesnt let you do that FUN
> stuff.
>
>
>
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
> Yeah, it's the boost mobile phone.  http://mologogo.com/.
>
> Many of the Motorola phones are programmable with JAVA.
>
> Boost mobile is a cheap way to tether if you need access anywhere no matter
> how slow.
>
> -Nate
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Nuzum [mailto:newz at bearfruit.org <newz at bearfruit.org>]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:00 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] hackable cell phone
>
> Seems like there was some discussion months back about a
> hackable cell phone, I thought it may be called "Boost" but
> maybe not. There was some application you could download that
> allowed you to share presence information with others (which
> probably isn't a great idea) because the cell phone provided
> a relatively cheap data plan.
>
> Yes, I know about android and I've downloaded the dev kit and
> done the hello world, and yes I'm glad I didn't buy an
> iPhone. However, in the meantime I'm curious if there is a
> hackable cell phone, in the sense that you can write your own
> applications (either stand alone or web enabled). Did I
> remember the name right (searching my e-mail folder yields no
> results, so I suspect I've got it wrong) and did I understand
> correctly that this phone is hackable?
>
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
> newz2000 on freenode
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