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    Linux Mobile Phone

    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07...oko_os_hanset/

    Apparently on sale tommorow, but seams a bit pricy for a phone without a camera.

    I wounder how snappy it will be? WM and Symbian seam to be content to have a poorly written slow to respond UI.

    That said, it looks like they've just ripped of the basic WM look from the only screenshot......
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    Re: Linux Mobile Phone

    I may get one, I've been looking for a decent small device that allows me to write software for without being forced into java. I'm not bothered with the lack of pin-hole camera, I have a real one for taking photos tyvm.
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    Re: Linux Mobile Phone

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    I wounder how snappy it will be? WM and Symbian seam to be content to have a poorly written slow to respond UI.
    To be fair it's not like Symbian has 100% control over the UI and I personally don't have a problem with the response times of 95% of things I have used on s60 and UIQ. Hopefully, now that Nokia is buying Symbian, the UI experience will improve a lot over the next few years.

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    I may get one, I've been looking for a decent small device that allows me to write software for without being forced into java.
    Not to keep banging on about Symbian phones but you can write software for them in Symbian C++, Java, Python (on s60) and C (most of the popular libraries are supported). As far as I'm aware there are other languages out there that you can also use.

    To stay a bit more on topic, as far as I'm aware there have already been a few Linux based phones released in the Western markets. The Motorola razr being a good example. I know that in Japan a large proportion of the market is made up of Linux phones. Apart from that I don't know how open they are in terms of allowing you to make software.

    Also aidanjt, I guess you're going to hate android phones then. 100% java APIs

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