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Smartphones are opening - but just a crack
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| We’re getting there. The Android Linux-based mobile operating system has an
| open source SDK available. Another open source Linux-based effort from the
| LiMo Foundation plans to have an SDK available to its members before the year
| is out, says Andrew Shikiar, the foundation’s director of global marketing.
| LiMo’s OS is at the heart of 23 shipping handsets around the world already.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2008/092908wireless2.html?hpg1=bn
Open Kernel Labs Embedded Hypervisor Enriches First Android Phone
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| OKL4 Embedded Hypervisor Confers Security, Flexibility Upon Next-Generation
| Smartphones
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081001005469&newsLang=en
Recent:
Network-audit tool for Linux phone announced
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| Pwn mode enables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network-penetration testing, through the
| use of tools including Aircrack and Metasploit. While there is no hardware
| Qwerty keyboard, NeoPwn claimed the FreeRunner's touchscreen keyboard
| is "more usable than the iPhone and Nokia Nseries".
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39492227,00.htm
Open source phone goes to college
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| OpenLab will encourage students to develop their own projects based on
| Openmoko software and hardware, says Openmoko. Working with National Tsing
| Hua University, Openmoko has developed a curriculum for OpenLab that is being
| released under a creative commons share-alike license.
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| [...]
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| Stated Jyuo-Min-Shyu, Dean, Tsing Hua College of Electronic Engineering and
| Computer Sciences, "The lab is great, and we have Neo FreeRunner phones right
| at our students' fingertips."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8959938447.html?kc=rss
Open Linux phone gets datacasts
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| The Communications Research Center Canada (CRC) has created a prototype
| handset that can receive datacasting signals. Its Linux-based "Openmokast"
| phone is built atop OpenMoko's open-source Neo FreeRunner phone platform, and
| along with typical smartphone functions, supports reception of live digital
| radio, video, and data broadcasts.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6565189083.html?kc=rss
First Openmoko Custom Phone Now Available and Wears a Debian Plaid Kilt
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| The Openmoko Neo Freerunner phone was released only a few weeks ago, and
| already, a customized version called the W.E. Phone is now available for
| purchase. So what's the difference between the naked-as-a-baby Neo and the
| Canadian-based W.E.? The latter comes with a full bundle of custom Google
| applications, on top of the core GNU/Linux OS base with dialing, SMS and
| contacts.
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/first-openmoko.html
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