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A Free Software world in the mobile realm is getting a few major kicks this year, from the OpenMoko project to the increased adoption of GNU/Linux in mobile phones to the more concerted efforts in organizing Free Software offerings for mobile platforms such as the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative being announced today:

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.

This is a draft. Please do comment, but do not submit it to news sites just yet. A potential problem

Ole Tange has provided me with a video file of a speech held by Sean Moss-Putz', that was recorded at FOSDEM 2007. You can download it either from MobiLiberty or Archive.org. The latter is probably a more redundant option, bandwidth wise.

This site is being started in order to provide a useful resource for everyone who is interested in open mobile communications and related devices. While there are sites which cover mobile phones in general we cover the ones running on Free Software like GNU/Linux specifically. There are also some sites covering this topic too, but are currently oriented more towards developers than general population or even just curious geeks.

Although much more expensive than OpenMoko's Neo1973 will be, QTopia Greenphone looks quite promising (and the price might decrease at some point). It is a phone that runs GNU/Linux with the QTopia platform developed by Trolltech.