Phone tech

[poweRob]

So I've been tossing around an idea for a phone system.

Mobile speaking there are the three big players iPhone, Android and Windows. But there are new players coming into the market.

Ubuntu has a phone coming out next month or early next year. And believe it or not there is a Firefox phone now being sold in India. It's a $35 smart phone.

These two are open source so you could program into it as needed. Now... what if you could get a google voice #, attach that to the firefox phone and just use it as no service plan but a wifi phone? Being that many people, like myself, have wifi at home and at work and hotspots all over town.

Then if you could tie it to an Ooma system at home where the google voice # rings your mobile and your oomla you'd pretty much have free phone service.

I was also thinking how it would be cool if you could find for your mobile device a way to not be tied to a verizon or tmobile or anything like that but where able to buy prepaid service plan for when you need to make calls and such when you are not in a wifi hotspot. Tie that into the Firefox phone. So you basically aren't buying any plans but just the service you use.

Any thoughts?

 

[American]

I thought Android was open source.

 

[Carjosse]

I thought Android was open source.

It is, only iOS and Windows are not.

 

[American]

It is, only iOS and Windows are not.

Then why look for another?

 

[poweRob]

I thought Android was open source.

I had heard tale that Google was kind of closing up some parts of their code but just googled up a story and read that it was a myth. So I guess it could be done with Android as well.

 

[poweRob]

Then why look for another?

Well if you wanted to go the cheap route like I said, an unlocked firefox smart phone is $60.