I recently got myself a Neo Freerunner with the FOSS Openmoko Stack on it(linux). I have to admit, it's still buggy as hell, and battery doesn't last a day, but I love the machine. I'm sure the software will improve drastically now, because more and more Neo's being shipped.
Imagine, plug in the usb cable of your phone, fire up a terminal and SSH into you phone with network over usb.
Imagine, you want to program an app for you phone, no problem . You can use QT, GTK and even non-graphical programs that run in a terminal. Wanna do some low level stuff? No problem, order an optional debug bord that ships with additional screw drivers so you can painlesly open you phone and connect it all the way.
It lacks some stuff ok, no camera (but it's a usb host(with power) so you can plugin your own webcam :-d ) and it doesn't have 3g. If you really want 3g you can plugin a usb stick with a 3g chip.
This phone is a nice tool if you are into security. You can easily turn it into a wireless security scanner with GPS. You can use it in cooperation with a laptop to do security audits that require two wifi connections, or you can silently let it scan from within your pocket.
Hell, you can even run a webserver on it(a bit out of the purpose for the phone, but hey fun is anything right ?.)
You don't like the case ? No problem download the gpl'd CAD drawings form their website, and modify it to look like what you like!
Not recommend for non-geeky people.
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