My Portable Stuff

What I have

  • Smart Phone: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner
    • Cell Provider: ATT Prepaid ($25 into account every 90 days, $.20/minute $.20/text - I don't use my phone much)
  • Media Player: Cowon iAudio X5 dual booting RockBox iAudio Port and original firmware (that I rarely use since RockBox is just plain awesome) as well as the Freerunner
  • GPS: Garmin Etrex as well as the Freerunner
  • Wi Fi Scanner: Zyxel AG-225H version 1 Wi Fi Scanner/USB Wireless Adapter (uses the zd1211 driver) - I also use this as my WNIC for my work laptop most of the time since the internal antenna doesn't see the AP very reliably from my desk in the corner.

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

General

The Neo Freerunner is being developed along with the OpenMoko Linux project to create a fully open phone/Wi Fi device and the accompanying Linux Operating System for it. I think FLOSS should be used wherever possible and I love the idea of a fully open phone.

I don't appreciate companies that use FLOSS in their devices yet restrict the user from doing anything, thus showing a lack of respect for the community and philosophies of the software they are profiting from.

Web Device

The Freerunner works fairly well as a Web Device. There are a variety of Web Browsers to choose from. I currently use Minimo when I want to surf from my Freerunner.

SIP Phone

I want to use it as a WiFi SIP phone as soon as there's a decent client written for it (the idea of using it as a SIP handset for the computer is interesting to me as well). :)

Ideally it should be running a SIP client with SRTP/ZRTP capabilities for secure communications.

Supposedly you can get linphone to run on the Freerunner, but I haven't tried yet.

GPS

There are of course several GPS programs available.

TangoGPS is quite nice for general GPS usage and information.
Navit and GPSDrive are both available for routing, though I haven't really tried that yet.

Wireless Network Analysis

Wardriving/Warwalking! (or just plain Wireless LAN mapping/troubleshooting in general)

(Come on, admit that you've all been thinking the same thing!)

Unfortunately the chip or driver for the WiFi doesn't support monitor mode, so no luck there.
However, you could hook up an external WiFi card and use that for kismet (I believe there is a kismet port).

Cell Phone

ATT Prepaid is working well for me so far.

Document Reader

I am playing with several Document Readers such as Evince and FBreader.

Media Player

Mplayer with the pythm pygtk app for controlling it works quite nicely.

My OGG collection is a bit under 4GB as I recall. I have an 8GB card in my Freerunner. :)

 
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