So the world finally gets a completely open phone, everything, the software, firmware, hardware, everything is completely open. Now with most open source projects, if there is something you don’t like, you go and change it.

Apparently that philosophy doesn’t apply to the OpenMoko, where upon seeing the interface and being displeased with it, people started whining and knocking it. Their first chance to openly change anything and everything they could possibly want with a device and they start by complaining about the user interface.

I for one don’t see too much of a problem, it’s a run of the mill phone interface, I could have come to the assumption that it wasn’t going to be much more than was needed to get the phone running when they made the phone SO YOU COULD CHANGE IT IF YOU DIDN’T LIKE IT! The interface that the pics are of isn’t all that terrible at all considering its not a phone that the general public is likely to purchase, its for hackers, developers, people who like high tech gadgets, and like to tinker.

12 new OpenMoko screenshots, prepare for disappointment [via intomobile]