For now, both projects are not quite what they are perceived - Android isn't OSS, Openmoko isn't usable as a daily phone.
I'd wait at least until both projects gain momentum. Considering the vast amounts of people behind Android, it will be the first one to become comfortable to use (the Openmoko team has <<50 people AFAIK, and those are both software and hardware teams).
Ultimately, though, I believe they will be on par. Andriod will probably have only a limited set of usable/compilable applications, while Openmoko will be the one with harsher UI but almost unlimited possibilities of software/hardware expansion (being more community driven. Debian was already ported to it).
Summarizing, Android is more likely to be the first to come out of developer-only phase, but the end result will be as similar as Linux and Windows are.
Things can change after the next version of the Neo comes out. |
