Quoting Brian May (brian@microcomaustralia.com.au):
Regardless, I don't think this has any relevance, as on most phones, Android does not do the 3G stuff itself, it hands the job to a separate CPU (modem), which, does not run open source software.
These days, yeah. I'm one of those poor sods who bought an FIC Neo Freerunner GTA02 running the OpenMoko stack. ;-> I didn't expect much in the short term on that one, but had some hope that they'd survive long enough to turn their somewhat feeble developmental platform into something with greater merit later -- because, through careful choice of components, they had everything except some 'firmware in blackbox hardware' in real open source. There, even the OpenMoko people claimed 'FCC regulations' forbade them to give out source code. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_it_completely_free_software.2Fopen_sour... My point is that the Android people are being gutless wonders, too, because the claimed FCC prohibition doesn't actually exist.