First Linux Phone Arrives in US

Mik3D writes "Looks like a Linux based phone has finally arrived in the US. It's called Identity and it features an interesting skin technology that allows users to purchase a faceplate with embedded ring tones, gui, etc... The phone is being offered by Dobson Cellular, an also-ran cell phone company that services those of us up here in the frozen north."

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"Interesting skin technology"

[Fizzl]

Identity is the first phone designed to communicate who you are. When you snap on a SmartSkin, you change your identity.

No doubt every /. geek would be thrilled by this innovative technology if this gizmo run some other operating system.

(It's funny, not a troll you crackpot moderator you)

I hate marketing. It's evil *and* insipid.

[Asprin]

This phone was interesting right up until I read this:

Identity(TM), featuring SmartSkins, is the first phone (GSM/GPRS) designed to communicate who you are and what you're all about.

Thank God, now I can stop talking to people and just show 'em my phone.

I suppose it has a ringtone that properly conveys the pre-middle-age angst of wondering if I've chosen the right career, uncertainty in my prospects for retirement (let alone *early* retirement) and that old-timey-style pinin' for the bygone era?

No?

Hmmm... maybe it's in one of the screensavers.