Can you really build your own mobile phone? Chris Edwards investigates the options presented by open-source hardware and software, and outlines why the market may yet take off. WHEN TOM YATES unpacked the phone that arrived from Openmoko, the open-source mobile phone company, there was one difference between it and the Nokia 6230 he had used before: he couldn't make a call on it. "It just didn't work. It shipped, basically, non-functional," says Yates.
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