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Qualcomm and Google prepare iPhone competitor
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| For quite a long time now, Google and Qualcomm have been working diligently
| on a collaborative Android phone OS in hopes that it will be able to take on
| the colossal iPhone. According to Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha, the
| iPhone's good, but "there are opportunities to do some things better." That's
| where Android comes in.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/08/04/qualcomm-and-google-prepare-iphone-competitor
http://tinyurl.com/6yl99c
The Value Of Open Platforms (aka Why I Don’t Own iPhone)
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| Open Platform != Open Source
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| Don’t confuse an open platform with open source. Windows, PalmOS, Symbian,
| and even Mac OS X are all basically open platforms (but clearly not open
| source). You can run any app designed for the platform whether it is
| specifically blessed by the developer of the platform or not. If Windows or
| Mac were closed platforms you couldn’t make a third-party application like
| Firefox because Microsoft and Apple both already have competing web browsers.
| Look on the iPhone though and you’ll see that Apple won’t let any developer
| make a competing media player. See the difference?
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http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/08/05/the-value-of-open-platforms-aka-why-i-dont-own-iphone/
Recent:
Palm Centro hits two-million sales mark, “beats” iPhone
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| Nevertheless, Palm’s Centro is still a capable and popular device, and
| despite using the somewhat ageing Palm OS, it’s still very solid and has
| features and capabilities Apple still haven’t yet implemented.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19718/1105/
Related:
iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
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| This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
| project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
| are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
| framework to go with it.
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http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
OpenMoko prepping to push sales of Linux-based handset
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| OpenMoko, a Linux-based open source handset platform developer, is pushing
| the development of Linux-based smartphone with its open source handset, the
| Neo 1973, which may be available to the mass-market in the second half of
| 2008, according to company sources.
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http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20071116PD213.html
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