Apple will always inform its customer about its product more then Nokia.Let us view the result then we are able to decide whether an index of openness is workable. To me, Iphone is more open then N95.

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Good luck with the issue regarding objectively scoring openess. My thoughts are there is no way either of these two phones are open. Linux on the other hand is of course.

I'm not sure that there really is an objective way to score openness. I would like to see someone take a crack at it though.

Nokia has released the Nokia N95, an all-in-one multimedia device that like the iPhone is a cellular phone, a multimedia player, a PDA, and a camera. The Nokia N95 is definitely stiff competition for the Apple iPhone and it has already been released in Europe early this year.
Conveniently fitting inside your pocket, the Nokia N95 has a beautiful silver display, allowing you to watch videos, take photographs, send emails, and call clients all through one device. The Nokia N95 debuts in the United States at a much higher price tag than the Apple iPhone, beginning at $700.

With a unique two-way slide concept, the Nokia N95 offers another feature – GPS integration with maps to over 100 countries for more than 15 million points of interest. Additional features can be purchased for additional cost. This is more detailed and integrated than the maps feature from the Apple iPhone.

Regarding the design, the two-way slide concept enables you to switch between two different modes, with a numeric keypad similar to a conventional cellular phone on one side, and media keys on the other side. The slide concept appears to offer some protection from the elements for the keyboard and traditional features unlike the Apple iPhone, which offers a revolutionary touch screen interface and a virtual keyboard.

The Apple iPhone interface is still remarkably more intuitive, elegant, and beautiful than all of its competitors yet the Nokia N95 does offer some competitive alternatives with a mixture of traditional features and increased multimedia capabilities. The Nokia N95 also allows for both landscape and portrait mode, similar to the Apple iPhone. However, the Apple iPhone offers a larger display at greater resolution at 320 x 480 pixels in comparison to the Nokia’s 240 x 320 pixels.

With a 5.0 megapixel camera, the Nokia N95 offer great quality photographs and higher resolution video. However, the Nokia N95 does not offer the great photo and video editing software that the Apple iPhone provides, which enables you to take photos and video and edit them right then and there on your iPhone, and send them off to friends, family, and colleagues by email. Through the HSDPA networks offering support to WLAN, EDGE, and WCDMA networks, the wireless capability of the Nokia N95 is faster than the 3G. The Nokia N95 also features S60 Software on Symbian OS, allowing for personalization through compatible applications.

In terms of voicemail, only Apple offers the unique visual voicemail option. Currently, the battery life of the Nokia N95 is short, antenna is weak, and the multimedia player does not have a contrast or brightness control. After improvements and upgrades are made, this model will be a better option. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone has three sensors: an ambient light sensor that prevents waste of battery life and adjusts brightness and contrast of the display: an accelerometer for adjusting between landscape and portrait mode; and a proximity sensor that turns off the display and touchscreen when the iPhone comes closes to the body; as well as three switches that enable sleep/wake, volume up/down, and ringer on/off modes.
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Maybe you can start with the index. Let us view the result then we are able to decide whether an index of openness is workable. To me, Iphone is more open then N95. Apple will always inform its customer about its product more then Nokia.

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I do agree that there is not an openess interms of fair competition.

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I vote for the iphone, nokia phone is not so technology advance as the iphone.

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I think it's a good idea. I'm doing his already

That's the problem Wendy, coming up with metrics that don't bias one phone or the other due to the platform.

Personally i'm a Symbian OS fan, however with each new OS they are becomming less "liberated".

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didn't get around to making an index, or a site, or a colorful table out of it (I'm currently using zim for it). If I did the latter, it would certainly be biased, of course, because it doesn't only describe openness.

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For a given platform, Open-ness is about degrees of freedom:

- can you transfer it to someone else?
- can you copy it for yourself?
- can you copy it to give away?
- can you copy it and sell it?
- can you alter it and use it by itself?
- can you alter it and use it with its standard infrastructure?
- can you alter it and distribute the method of alteration?
- can you alter it and distribute the altered work?
- can you alter it and sell the altered work?
- which of these abilities can you pass to other people?
- which of these abilities can you restrict from other people?
- is there a documented ABI?
- is there a documented API?
- is there an available SDK?
- is there a free or very-low-cost SDK?
- does the programming interface expose all the features?
- can you get source code and/or schematics?
- can you redistribute the source or schematics?
- how end-user friendly is the best method of adding functions (new HW, new SW)?

I've started compiling a list of companies this summer, containing some information about them, like what software they are using for their site, what file formats they use, what good/bad things they've done lately (or, if they are the same all the time, throughout their history)…

I didn't get around to making an index, or a site, or a colorful table out of it (I'm currently using zim for it). If I did the latter, it would certainly be biased, of course, because it doesn't only describe openness.

For example, it lists:
About web sites:
- the web server used for the site
- how much Flash the site contains and how much it depends on it
- what other file formats are used
- what the site says about browsers (e.g. "This site is best viewed in …)
About company relationships
- what company designed the site, what company gave them software, hardware etc

Subsidiaries are all listed under the owner, and their name links to the owners name.

Also things like
“… listed 9999th in the top 40 best companies