According to LinuxDevices.com: "Intel has created an ultra-low-cost laptop for school children in emerging markets. The "ClassMatePC" is available with Linux or Windows XP, comes with an "educational feature set," and is part of a program in which Intel plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years."
It does quite remind of OLPCs, not that this is necessarily a bad thing. I just hope the GNU/Linux version will be more popular than (ugh) the XP one.
China consumed 15 million smartphones in 2006, up from 10 million units in 2005, resulting in more than doubling of smartphone revenues, according to Chinese market research firm CCID Consulting Company. Symbian controlled 63.2 percent of the market, followed by Linux (30.3 percent) and Windows Mobile (5.4 percent).
This page should help clarify some of the questions that may be commonly asked about MobiLiberty.com and the topic that it is about, mobile devices running on Free Software and Open Standards.
What is the purpose of MobiLiberty.com?
If you read this blog, it's very likely you like Free/Libre software. If so, it's also very likely you find a certain big software company annoying, because they keep trying to hinder the development of free software, which they do because they want everyone who owns a computer to buy their software.
Judging from the news and rumors that circulate around the web, Google Phone might be a reality, and we already know how real Apple's iPhone is. I have no doubt that, just as Apple, Google can take the phone to new levels. In fact, I would say that Apple and Google may be among the most to blame for the trend that may replace those old keyboard phones with new multifunctional PDA-style touch screen phones.
This announcement marks the official launch of the third web site being added to Libervis Network, MobiLiberty.com, a project of promoting Free Software and Free Standards in the world of mobile devices, from phones to mp3 (and ogg) players to various other mobile gadgets. It is starting with a rather minimal base, a multi-user blog containing interesting articles and news posts written by on site as well as offsite bloggers via RSS who write about the same subject.
You don't need to submit your posts directly on MobiLiberty.com. You can simply post them on your blog, and if it supports tagging, add a "mobiliberty" tag to every blog post you wish to be considered for publishing on MobiLiberty.com.
Everyone who has their blog with WordPress.com has this feature. The following graphic should give you a better idea about how submitting content via RSS works.
Sean Moss-Pultz has relayed an announcement email, titled "Crossroads", on the OpenMoko mailing list. They need your help in finding the right wifi vendor, one with free (GPL) drivers, and they have a shortage of developers.
Here is the full email:
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Dear Community,
OpenMoko is built around the philosophy that far more knowledge exists
outside the walls of a corporation than within. Internally, we're
struggling with two issues. So we're throwing this out, hoping that some
Despite certain delays due to some hardware issues, the Phase 0 of the OpenMoko project has been shipped.
