Kogan, an Australian company who usually specialise in LCD’s, are making a mobile handset (the Agora) for Google Android (which uses the Linux kernel) with 3G, quad band GSM, GPS, wifi, Bluetooth, etc… It’s due to start shipping at the end of January and I’ve just pre-ordered mine to hopefully provide a more functional open source phone and let me hack more with my OpenMoko phone without having to worry about not having a working phone.
[…] for Kogan has put a YouTube video up of a production sample of the Kogan Agora Android phone that I pre-ordered on New Years Day. Looks quite snappy from what you can see, but it’s not the worlds best produced […]
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