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This would be a lot cooler...

This would be a lot cooler...

Posted Apr 19, 2007 23:28 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27)
In reply to: This would be a lot cooler... by liljencrantz
Parent article: The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Mobile Platform is already out there on shipping devices. The Nokia N770/800 web tablet, the Vernier LabQuest, and devices produced by plenty of others who were not involved in our founding announcement.


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This would be a lot cooler...

Posted Apr 20, 2007 18:57 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

Right, I didn't mean to slam the platform, I was lamenting the fact that I can't buy a Linux cellphone, even though I have money to burn.

I can't help but feel frustrated by how painfully close to awesome the Nokia Maemo/N800 is. Not including a cell chip and keeping a few lines of random code secret moves it from perfect to *bleh*. The prorietary code should be possible to replace, but it such a completely pointless thing to do that it makes me distrustful regarding the cluefulness of the people at the top, and quite frankly, forcing the community to jump through those kinds of hoops is exactly the kind of thing that makes a budding community ask itself “why should I bother?”

This would be a lot cooler...

Posted Apr 26, 2007 5:59 UTC (Thu) by carlistixx (guest, #40102) [Link]

It doesn't run GNOME but it's certainly a "Linux cellphone".

This would be a lot cooler...

Posted Apr 26, 2007 6:13 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]

Not that anyone (least of all Trolltech) would recommend it for production use. :-)

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