[TriLUG] FOSS/Linux phones

[Shawn Hartsock]

I'm under the impression that the whole Android thing is probably a
year to two years away from making it into a phone. Is that right?

I saw Android and it looked like a way I could finally get to play
around with development on cellphones again. But, last time I looked
it's not like you can buy even a demo device running Android. I think
the phone platforms are about as fragmented as the computing platforms
were was back in the 1980s.

Well, I don't really know ... I've just been looking for an excuse to
play with 3D graphics on a cell phone that didn't require spending
hundreds of dollars on an SDK and dev kit. The 3D Android demos got me
going... soo... sooo... preeaty...

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Douglas A. Whitfield
<douglasawh at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a few commercial Linux embedded phones, such as the RAZR V8, but I
> can't seem to find any truly open smartphones.  I kinda want a smart phone
> and I hate to support Apple, but I think supporting Darwin is probably
> better than getting a Blackberry.  I know there is the OpenMoko project and
> there are some other projects/devices that do handhelds that aren't phones.
> I want a phone!  An iPod Touch isn't going to cut it.  So, I'm partially
> asking if there is anything out there I could get.  Cost is not that big of
> a concern, but obviously the smaller the better.  I'm interested in Google's
> Android (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android) but I'm not sure if I
> should wait or not.  Thoughts?  Thanks!
>
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