My only beef with the linux based phones is the lack of useful apps (yeah, like spell-check). I own the Motorola e680i which is a good phone to listen to radio or mp3s but as far as business apps go, the choices are non existent
That is the reason they are releasing this phone and development environment.
All the comments about carriers not supporting it, or not feeling like they will start selling seems to be missing the point.
The phone's primary purpose is to be sold as a development environment, along with Qtopia a license to spur development of 3rdbased party applications to run on Linux mobile devices. Trolltech does not appear to have any desire to partner wtih Verizon, or Sprint or anyone to sell this to consumers. Maybe I am wrong, but this is how I read it.
It is called the Greenphone because that fits nice wtih Trolltech's marketed image they have been building over recent years.
Re:The question every firefox user is asking
on
Opera 8 Released
·
· Score: 1
I'm not sure what the point of an open source RFID project would really be.
This is easy, to help support the new standards that are being set by EPC Global. Also to fuel faster development and deployment to help move the technology quicker. I read a lot of posts about gonig to the grocery store, and walking out with all of your products and have it billed to your credit card. The reality of the situation is that this is a long way off, Wal-Mart is only now beginning to tag only pallets and cases - and that is only from a small amount of suppliers as it is. An open solution will speed up the reality of the 'cool' applications of RFID.
Shortly put, I don't think the situation is at all analogous to Apache's.
Internet - Needs webservers to exist. OS webservers make growth very fast.
(EPC) RFID - Needs middleware and ONS to exist. OS can provide this and fuel this growth.
Slashdot Mirror
This is what I wanted to say wtih my post..but didn't have the patience ;-) Nice post.
All the comments about carriers not supporting it, or not feeling like they will start selling seems to be missing the point. The phone's primary purpose is to be sold as a development environment, along with Qtopia a license to spur development of 3rdbased party applications to run on Linux mobile devices. Trolltech does not appear to have any desire to partner wtih Verizon, or Sprint or anyone to sell this to consumers. Maybe I am wrong, but this is how I read it. It is called the Greenphone because that fits nice wtih Trolltech's marketed image they have been building over recent years.
So true.
I'm not sure what the point of an open source RFID project would really be.
This is easy, to help support the new standards that are being set by EPC Global. Also to fuel faster development and deployment to help move the technology quicker. I read a lot of posts about gonig to the grocery store, and walking out with all of your products and have it billed to your credit card. The reality of the situation is that this is a long way off, Wal-Mart is only now beginning to tag only pallets and cases - and that is only from a small amount of suppliers as it is. An open solution will speed up the reality of the 'cool' applications of RFID.
Shortly put, I don't think the situation is at all analogous to Apache's.
Internet - Needs webservers to exist. OS webservers make growth very fast.
(EPC) RFID - Needs middleware and ONS to exist. OS can provide this and fuel this growth.