Open Mobile Gadgets

This is a description of a project to create an open software, open hardware mobile communications device. Initial iterations will be very simple, but will progress to having full smartphone-like functionality and beyond.

The Open Mobile Gadgets Architecture

Here's a quick block diagram of the device that I want to build. More details to come about the specific hardware implementation.

Open Gadgets Architecture (Block Diagram)

If you're interested, contact me (chazegh @ flashmob.com).

-- Chazegh 14:12, 26 January 2006 (PST)

Is this the same as the "Open Phone" ?

"The Complete Open Phone" by Matthew Hamrick, 2006-09-05

("Matthew Hamrick is the co-founder of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club ... Matthew ... proposes a truly open mobile phone platform.")

Even if it is not, would it be a good idea to join forces, share resources, etc. ?

Is it really possible to build a cell phone with "reasonable" weight and battery lifetime using mostly generic hardware (a FPGA, a Kilocore, off-the-shelf ADCs and DACs, etc.) and lots of software, rather than hard-wiring everything with custom hardware?

... See wikipedia:Software-defined_radio ...

--DavidCary 13:01, 24 September 2006 (PDT)