June, 2007

New Oceans for the OpenMoko project

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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

Linux gets more mobile

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"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.

5 Cool Linux-Powered Phones

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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

Asus stuns Computex with £100 laptop

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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.

Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux

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

Open source phone plans September launch

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"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

PCs are so 90s (update)

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