On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
Well, the Neo has proprietary software "on it" if you count the internal modem. I'm not sure how interesting a list that would be, particularly if you count firmware - the number of devices would basically be zero.
There is always some aspect of a device which is proprietary.
As far as I could understand from the Neo's information, it's all Free Software except some components put in ROM (well, maybe it's a REPROM) like the GSM and GPS components, allowing the system to operate without BLOBs.
This isn't much different from a computer BIOS, and while it's a goal to be able to replace them, they are still very immature and unless you are even more extremely careful, you won't even be able to buy a motherboard that can have it's BIOS replaced by something like OpenBIOS.
I know I don't have any such device yet, sadly.
However, after the huge disappointment that the N770 and N800 Nokia models are, the Neo is quite a breath of fresh air!
Rui