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Android phone launches in China
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| TechFaith Wireless and Qigi Future Technology announced a smartphone that
| runs the Google Android mobile Linux stack. The i6-Goal is only the second
| Android phone to launch, and reportedly includes a 2.8-inch touchscreen,
| quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and a two-megapixel camera.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5850632768.html?kc=rss
Open source phone gains "fat" distro
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| Barcelona, Spain-based Tuxbrain has released an application-rich Linux
| distribution for the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner phone called Fat and Dirty
| OpenMoko (FDOM). In addition, Openmoko announced that both Tuxbrain and
| French design firm FaberNovel have joined the company's network of more than
| 20 distributors.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2867771380.html?kc=rss
Recent:
Network-audit tool for Linux phone announced
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| Pwn mode enables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network-penetration testing, through the
| use of tools including Aircrack and Metasploit. While there is no hardware
| Qwerty keyboard, NeoPwn claimed the FreeRunner's touchscreen keyboard
| is "more usable than the iPhone and Nokia Nseries".
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39492227,00.htm
New Linux phone can 'pwn' Wi-Fi
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| Open source developer NeoPwn has built what it claims is the first Wi-Fi
| penetration testing platform to run from a mobile phone.
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| Running a modified version of the Linux 2.6.24 kernel on top of Debian Linux
| and the Openmoko Neo Freerunner smartphone, the software is said to be able
| to host a long list of wireless attacks, including KARMetasploit, WPA
| handshake capture and the Caffe Latte WEP crack. The full list of ported
| applications quoted by the company runs to over 70.
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=104701
Open source phone goes to college
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| OpenLab will encourage students to develop their own projects based on
| Openmoko software and hardware, says Openmoko. Working with National Tsing
| Hua University, Openmoko has developed a curriculum for OpenLab that is being
| released under a creative commons share-alike license.
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| [...]
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| Stated Jyuo-Min-Shyu, Dean, Tsing Hua College of Electronic Engineering and
| Computer Sciences, "The lab is great, and we have Neo FreeRunner phones right
| at our students' fingertips."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8959938447.html?kc=rss
Open Linux phone gets datacasts
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| The Communications Research Center Canada (CRC) has created a prototype
| handset that can receive datacasting signals. Its Linux-based "Openmokast"
| phone is built atop OpenMoko's open-source Neo FreeRunner phone platform, and
| along with typical smartphone functions, supports reception of live digital
| radio, video, and data broadcasts.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6565189083.html?kc=rss
I'm super excited to begin work on this project [porting DeviceScape to the
OpenMoko]
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| To the best of my knowledge this is the first (or one of the first) non-FIC
| commercial applications being ported/developed for the OpenMoko/FreeRunner
| stack.
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http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2008/08/im-super-excited-to-begin-work-on-this.html
First Openmoko Custom Phone Now Available and Wears a Debian Plaid Kilt
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| The Openmoko Neo Freerunner phone was released only a few weeks ago, and
| already, a customized version called the W.E. Phone is now available for
| purchase. So what's the difference between the naked-as-a-baby Neo and the
| Canadian-based W.E.? The latter comes with a full bundle of custom Google
| applications, on top of the core GNU/Linux OS base with dialing, SMS and
| contacts.
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/first-openmoko.html
OpenMoko Neo Freerunner - Part 1
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| Openmoko, born as a Free Software project under GPL and LGPL license, is
| dedicated to delivering an open software stack on mobile platforms. Openmoko
| shipped its first product, the Neo 1973, on July 9 2007; and then turned into
| a start-up company with one aim: create great mobile products using the
| Openmoko stack: Open. Mobile. Free.
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| The first Openmoko product, the Neo 1973, sold exclusively through Openmoko
| Online Shop. It sold out in early February 2008.
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| Openmoko started selling the Neo FreeRunner (GTA02), the second generation of
| Neo, on July 3, 2008. It is available through the Openmoko Online Shop or
| national distributers.
|
| I received my FreeRunner as part of the first batch of orders shipped on July
| 7th. I've now been playing with it for 10 days and these are my impressions.
|
| [...]
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| All said and done I really like the phone. And, like the main devs, am
| hesitant to call it a "phone". It is really a handheld Linux computer that
| happens to have GPS and a GSM phone built-in.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/27/46753
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