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echo: osdebate
to: Adam
from: David B
date: 2006-08-23 10:40:56
subject: Re: Is this a pc?

From: "David B" 


"Adam <""thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">" wrote in message news:44e391a6{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8030785497.html
>
> "Trolltech, best known for development tools and Linux application
> stacks for phones and other mobile devices, will ship an "open"
> Linux-based phone in September. The "Greenphone" features a
> user-modifiable Linux OS, and is meant to jumpstart a third-party native
> application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones."
>
> "The Greenphone appears to be a working GSM/GPRS mobile phone endowed
> with a bootloader amenable to letting users re-flash the phone with
> modified Linux-based firmware, via a mini-USB port. The phone will not
> be available standalone, but rather as part of a development kit. The
> kit will be offered under separate licensing terms to open source
> developers, educational institutions, "major" software vendors, and to
> "phone designers and manufacturers," Trolltech says."
>
>
> Adam

GSM? That sticks you with Cingular and T-Mobile in the U.S.A. I'll stick with CDMA.

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