Google Using OpenMoko For gPhone?
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| A friendly penguin has told us at Phoronix that Google is looking to team up
| with OpenMoko for their "gPhone". Google will not be using the FIC Neo1973
| GTA01, but they will be bringing the open-source OpenMoko platform to their
| own hardware, which looks to be manufactured through HTC, and making a few
| changes along the way.
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk1Mw
Google Sets Sights on $10 Billion Mobile Ad Market
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| "Google clearly sees mobile search as a huge potential revenue stream, so
| much so that the company is exploring many different ways of getting in the
| game," said Avi Greengart, a mobile devices analysts at Current Analysis.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070806/bs_nf/54389
Many new members in this mobile Linux standard/alliance, e.g.:
McAfee, Inc. Joins LiMo Foundation to Provide Security for World's First Mobile
Linux Initiative
http://www.tickertech.com/cgi/?a=news&ticker=a&w=&story=200708200708061436PR_NEWS_USPR_____AQM140
Wind River Joins LiMo Foundation
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/11087/wind-river-joins-limo-foundation
Related:
Googlephone could be powered by Linux and free of charge
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1573.html
OpenMoko Developer Preview Sold Out After Unexpected Demand
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| OpenMoko, the first Open Source cell phone, has sold out the entire planned
| production run for the device's developer preview after unexpected demand.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/6/24279
iPhone matures the "free your phone" movement
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| This is why FreeTheIPhone.org project is born, but even better, why OpenMoko
| project exists. While some are trying to free the locked down device, others
| are creating a free unlocked device from the start, and a whole software
| framework to go with it.
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http://www.mobiliberty.com/iphone_matures_free_your_phone_movement
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