October 13, 2006
The Linux Phones Are Here
Geeks rejoice. Greenphone is the first mobile communication device built on an open Linux platform. The application development platform starts at US$695 for the device (including SDK - software development kit), plus a license fee of $195. The Qtopia Greenphone was announced back in mid-August at LinuxWorld San Francisco, and is offered by Oslo, Norway's Trolltech, who went public in July. The phone was dreamed up in February by Trolltech CEO Benoit Schillings, to be an open phone for development.
Well, the price is steep and the phone is a GSM/ GPRS device, but this could be one fun gadget. And I'm more than certain that if you can get VoIP running on it, you'll be able to set up custom voicemail messages. (Because as any Linux-phile knows, you can do anything with the OS.)
[additional sources: GigaOm via Download Squad]
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