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Trolltech Woos Developers with 'Open' Linux Phone
An anonymous reader writes "Trolltech, best known for its Qt graphics framework and toolkit that form the basis of KDE, will ship the Greenphone, an open Linux-based phone in September. The working GSM/GPRS mobile phone features a user-modifiable Linux OS, and is meant to jumpstart a third-party native application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones. Users will be able to re-flash the phone with modified Linux-based firmware, via a mini-USB port. The device is based on an unspecified Linux kernel along with Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE) application framework and mobile phone stack. Gosh, this has gotta be the perfect phone for KDE lovers!"
"Gosh, this has gotta be the perfect phone for KDE lovers!" All 6 of them? Karma--;
She didn't seem at all put off that I was using a European phone (In fact she sounded rather envious) and didn't give me any hassle about it at all.
I'm guessing you don't live in a red state then.
Finally all those whiners can just compile a version of the OS which only has the dialling program, and they can have their phone with no other features.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!