São Paulo, Brazil - December 2nd, 2008 – Koolu is proud to announce availability of Google's Android Platform source code for the Openmoko phone "FreeRunner". 

While Android was released as open source software in late October, a certain amount of work had to be done to get the code to work on other manufacturer's phones.  The FreeRunner, an open design of phone from Taiwan-based OpenMoko, needed certain changes to the Android code to have it work properly.  The free software community, with the help of people all over the world, was able to change the source code to have it run on the FreeRunner. 

We want to thank the Open Handset Alliance, the Openmoko community, the Android community and especially Sean McNeil in their work to bring the code this far. 

Koolu is providing the patches necessary to take Google's Android Platform source code to run on the Openmoko FreeRunner phone, the steps to create a tool chain to build that code, and the instructions on how to build the binary images so more people who have FreeRunners (or want to purchase FreeRunners) can help with finishing the port. 

Also announced at IPCOMM was the agreement for iSolve, a Brazilian tele-communications integration firm located in Curitiba, to be the master distributor of the Openmoko FreeRunner in Brazil. 

iSolve has been a leader in the free and open source (FOSS) community in Brazil with regards to telecommunications.  Denis Galvão started AsteriskBrazil.org, the portal for the well-known open source Asterisk PBX software, and Koolu feels that iSolve's expertise and channels in FOSS will help make the FreeRunner a premier phone for business customers.  iSolve will be actively engaging other companies to be VARs, resellers and retailers of the FreeRunner in Brazil, as well as carriers that wish to carry an open phone. 

The code will be located in a git repository at git.koolu.org and the instructions and other information will be located in a forum at forum.koolu.org 

Sincerely,