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Introducing the Open-Source Cellphone

August 6, 2008 | by Sam Bollier

Phone company Openmoko is making cellphones that are open-source and modifiable. By making the phone’s schematics publicly available, anyone has free rein to modify these devices, and add or remove features as they see fit.