Launch of OSS For Mobile Phones 75
Linux Mobile Phone Guy writes "Members of the open source GPE project (GPE Palmtop Environment) today announced a new offspring project to create a fully open source software stack for mobile phones, GPE Phone Edition.
GPE Phone Edition is a fully open source project based on developments from
the GPE project adding necessary components for mobile phone usage. Based on
standards defined by the LiPS Forum a complete application software stack is built. The current implementation is based on code contributed to the
LiPS Forum by Orange/France Telecom's research and development lab located
in Beijing China in collaboration with GPE project members.
The result is now an open sourced software stack which can handle a GSM
compliant mobile modem for making voice calls, handling the SIM address
book and sending and receiving SMS. Also some additional application
exists e.g. for media playback, instant messaging and email.
They have some screenshots there and even a downloadable VMware image
using which you can try the whole thing in a virtual phone on your PC — if you connect a GSM Modem (like an existing phone) to /dev/GSM-Modem
you should probably even be able to use the full phone functionality
(access SIM card, send/receive SMS, make a call!)."
Coming Soon (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does this differ from Greenphone? (Score:2, Funny)