At the Lunch@Piero’s press event during CES, Openmoko Inc, maker of the world’s first totally open mobile phone, demonstrated applications, highlighted over 50 distributors and showcased distributions that run on the Openmoko FreeRunner mobile phone. William Lai shares an astronomy application that lets users cruise the stars in the palm of their hand.
Openmoko gives developers a choice of ever-popular Debian, community-driven FDOM, QT by Trolltech (recently acquired by Nokia) and Android operating systems for their mobile applications, proving that the FreeRunner is the hardware of choice for developers focused on building and maintaining distributions. Since successful launch of the Openmoko FreeRunner July 2008, the company has seen expanding hardware deployment in medical, industrial and military markets. Over the past six months, FreeRunners have been sold to over 40 universities and the company has engaged in ongoing projects with the Taiwan Ministry of Education. http://www.openmoko.com
Hello…free calls here! Truphone CEO, Geraldine Wilson shows how to make low cost calls or even free international calls using WiFi using your iPhone or iPod Touch and the Truphone application. At the Lunch@Piero’s press lunch during CES, Truphone once again demonstrated the speed and frequency with which it has been rolling out Internet communications capabilities. This time it is bringing Truphone WiFi phone functionality to the globally hot Apple iPhone, the iPod Touch and RIMs Blackberry devices. This in addition to Wi-Fi enabled calling for dual-mode mobile handsets from Nokia. Next in the queue is support for Googles Android platform and Windows Mobile, along with a wide range of IM and presence capabilities. http://www.truphone.com.
Lexmark International demonstrated a wide spread of elegant devices and printers to help working professionals get “Back to Business” at Lunch@Pieros during CES. The printers on display include the all-in-ones X7675 and the X4975 and the color laser C543dn. The Lexmark Professional Series provides a rewards program for free supplies. Networkable or even wireless, Lexmark printers are robust and offer generous ink and toner cartridge capacity making professionals’ lives easier. Autoduplexing means less paper consumption and that’s good for the environment. http://www.lexmark.com
