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Trolltech GPLs Qtopia Phone Edition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it dept.

Provataki writes "Trolltech has announced that they are releasing the new version of Qtopia Phone Edition under the GPL along with a port on the FIC Neo1973 smartphone. Trolltech also continues to support Greenphone as a reference platform for mobile development within the company and through its partners. Benoit Schillings, CTO of Trolltech (also of BeOS fame as one of the original Be, Inc. engineers) commented on the news."

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  1. I'm curious... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...if any open source developers will start making Open Hardware phones. With the rise of the cell phone as a complete multimedia platform (a wave to Apple in particular here), the market is ripe for sophisticated embedded hardware of the type that OSS developers have been toying with for some time now.

    Obviously, the biggest hurdle is FCC regulations. You can't actually install and run the radio without an FCC license and/or a shielded area to test radio communications from. I don't know what's involved in being licensed for public airwaves (especially for development purposes), but even finding a mini-tower to install in your "Faraday garage" that you're sure properly emulates a true cell tower could be difficult.

    Hmm... unless someone OSSed that first? An OSS cell network? (Yeah, right.) ;-)

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  2. Re:QTopia vs OpenMoko by Directrix1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OpenMoko runs on other phones already. They designed it to run on anything the user wants it to run on.

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