Open Source iPhone Killer?

Are you sick of the iPhone yet? I sure am. Anyway, I was delighted to hear about an open source iPhone killer, from the OpenMoko project. Slashdot reported an Open Source Linux Phone Goes on Sale.

The phone in question is the Neo 1973, and the price for a developer's preview is $300. The really good news is that the OpenMoko people are trying to set an example for how hardware manufacturers can go about using open source software in a way that will benefit the manufacturer/vendor as well as users and third party developers.

Right now it's not entirely clear when they'll be ready to sell to mainstream users; at the moment their website seems to be knocked down by all the Linux fans looking for more information, but if you can't get in now they should be back up and running soon.