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So Sprint was involved in another debacle this week. Their SERO (Sprint Employee Referral Offer) program faced some changes. Quick intro: SERO offers cheap plans for friends and family of Sprint employees. These offer a number of features, like unlimited SMS and data services, for a fraction of a normal plan. Well, earlier in the week the supposedly pulled PDAs and smartphones from SERO eligibility. Phone News was on the prowl, lambasting Sprint for the decision. The company has responded, saying that the whole thing was a mistake. You can get SERO with a PDA/smartphone. In addition, you can switch from SERO to a Simply Unlimited plan, and then back to SERO. Score up another one for the good guys.
There’s a new open-source phone running on GNU/Linux: Openmoko. This looks like a European release, though it does support the U.S. band of GSM. It comes with basic features, and developers are free to create their own software plugins. Sounds like a great concept, and it’s something we’d like to get into over the next few months.
Looks like Best Buy is getting a new slew of Sidekicks from T-Mobile. These include the Gekko and the Tony Hawk edition.
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OpenMoko isn’t new.
Their first phone, the Neo1973, came out about a year ago. Haven’t heard about it? That’s because it was a collasol flop. Open Source is useless without a large community to support a project, and OpenMoko doesn’t have it yet.
What you’re talking about is their second handset, which offers some new features but still leaves out stuff like 3G. Doomed to failure?