Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club
Encyclopedia
The Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Computer Club is a club that furthers open phone development.
Mountain View Campus
. Matt Hamrick, the club's founder, indicated the club's objectives as "building a better cell phone." The club aims to achieve their objective by creating a "complete open phone", a combination of open source software and hardware designs intended to give advanced end users the tools to build their own mobile phone. It is considered notable for its similarities to the Homebrew Computer Club
, an organization which counted Steve Wozniak
and Steve Jobs
as members and was widely considered influential in the development of early personal computers.
The club is a continuation of the "open phone movement," identified by TuxPhone
project manager Surj Patel.
History
The club was founded in May 2006 and held its inaugural meeting at Google'sGoogle
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Mountain View Campus
Googleplex
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. Matt Hamrick, the club's founder, indicated the club's objectives as "building a better cell phone." The club aims to achieve their objective by creating a "complete open phone", a combination of open source software and hardware designs intended to give advanced end users the tools to build their own mobile phone. It is considered notable for its similarities to the Homebrew Computer Club
Homebrew Computer Club
The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist users' group in Silicon Valley, which met from March 5, 1975 to December 1986...
, an organization which counted Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...
and Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc...
as members and was widely considered influential in the development of early personal computers.
The club is a continuation of the "open phone movement," identified by TuxPhone
TuxPhone
The TuxPhone is a mobile phone which runs on free and open-source software, and is currently in the prototype stage. The goal of the project is to develop a phone that anyone with basic soldering equipment can construct, with support from the free and open source software community for downloads,...
project manager Surj Patel.