Android phone for corporate clients in the works
Full versions of the consumer should follow in mid-July.
Toronto based Koolu uses GTA02 version of the Neo FreeRunner from Openmoko, which is fully based on open standards for the phone.
Speaking to ZDNet UK this week, Cloud Expo Europe conference in London, Koolu CTO John Hall said the phone is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. Phone will be available worldwide.
“We are targeting businesses that want the functionality of the phone that they can not get from Apple, RIM, or any of the property company,” said Hall.
He noted that the beta version will be available to software developers and service providers to port their applications in early June.
According to Hall, who is also executive director, not-for-profit organization, the user Linux International, the handset is the “last bastion of insularity in our PC society.”
He said that Koolu phone is a response to restrictions on use imposed by telephone companies.
“They say:” Of course, we’ll sell you a phone, but you must use these services during this period of time, and we are going to be your carrier and ISP, and you do not dare to use voice over IP because we do not make any any money that way. “And the clients say:” Wait a minute, I paid for the freaking phone and it is my own, so why can not I use it as I want? “Hall said.
People should be able to decide which operating system they want to work on their handsets and select the carrier, he said.
“This is a very open concept,” Hall replied: “and it gives you to control all the way from your mobile phone to your data center for the first time.”
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