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Archive for July, 2004

The missing web site: A Linux phone portal

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

If you do a search on Google for “linux phone” the results will be quite disappointing, composed of a few older projects that have nothing to do with a mobile phone and some news articles mainly about the Motorola Linux phone. No specific open-source project, no documentation, no book.

But with the momentum that Linux is […]

Why don’t we have an iPod phone yet?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

From all the portable devices that exist, only qualify two types are really useful and seeing a real success: the mobile phone (and I mean the simple phone, not the smartphone that tries to do everything but at the end doesn’t do the phone feature correctly anymore) and the MP3 player (a concept that was […]