Yesterday I had some fun riding my bike around town with a GPS-enabled OpenMoko Neo Freerunner attached to the handle bar. I bought a PDA/mobile-phone mount-kit for bikes at the PEARL online store.
The Freerunner fits in very good and there is some foam between the Freerunner and the plastic of the mount-kit, so it will not scratch it badly.
The USB and audio ports as well as the two buttons are accessible through the big holes at the sides of the mount-kit. The external GPS antenna port is accessible after lifting the Freerunner for 3mm (see photo 1 and 2):
To fixate it on the handle bar I just had to attach a small plastic strap to it.
Now I can clip on my Freerunner and with the excellent tangoGPS software installed I can ride around town to explore new roads for the Openstreetmap project.
Perhaps I am going to buy a dynamo hub and some sort of power converter that supplies my Freerunner with 5V, so I can charge it while riding the bike (have a look at this c’t article 23/2007, page 190)…
