June, 2007

There is a new exciting announcement from Sean Moss-Pultz from the OpenMoko project about the current state and the future of Neo1973 OpenMoko powered phone. Things seem to be moving in the right direction.

Here is the announcement:

"Dear Community,

Andre Gide once said, "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the
courage to lose sight of the shore." Sexism aside, I can't think of a
better way to describe our adventures this past year.

Around the end of March, we were three months behind schedule. Critical

"The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum will today release its first specifications in an effort to encourage people to develop more applications for Linux-based mobile phones.

This is a shiny list, with big pictures, of some of the coolest looking phones powered by GNU/Linux.

"We have seen the future of cell phones, and it’s Linux. These five phones bring the flexibility of Linux to the portable world." -- More here

Since we sometimes cover the OLPC project this seems quite interesting as the parallel to OLPC is quite obvious.

"Asus chairman Jonney Shih sprang a surprise during Intel's Computex keynote today with the announcement of a $189 laptop.

"Ubuntu backer Canonical has pinned down some broad feature lists for its upcoming version of Linux for smaller mobile devices.

"OpenMoko Neo1973, the world's first open source mobile phone is on target for a September launch, reports MobileWhack.

The OpenMoko Neo173 is a mobile phone in the same vein as Apple's iPhone. The iPhone is due for launch around mid-year in the US and towards the end of the year in Europe and South Africa." -- Read more

A while ago I wrote about a little idea of mine: docking stations for phones, providing a full-size screen and