Matthew Garrett: Palm Pre
June 10, 2009
The real open source smartphone = Palm Pre? Blech. The post on Matthew Garrett’s Livejournal:
I’m impressed. There’s a few rough edges and some obvious short-term hacks, but overall the Pre has the appearance of being a well-engineered distribution. It’s recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn’t. Since it seems to be possible to gain root by entering the developer mode, I suspect that modifying the firmware image isn’t especially difficult. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when GSM ones appear.