http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/10/04/palm-linux-phone-slips-another-year en-us 40 My God, It's Full of Source! <p>Ouch. I was waiting until the end of the year to get a new phone since Palm had announced its linux-based phone would be out before Christmas. Today they announced they&#8217;ve <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/03/palm_os_delay/">slipped a year</a> on that schedule. Bummer, they should have started on this back in &#8216;03 or &#8216;04 when Access (sp?) was trying to convince them to get off old the crumbly old PalmOS.</p> <p>I can&#8217;t handle PalmOS for another year, it&#8217;s too creaky for what I want. Apple is committed to a closed platform. Nokia is pushing its phone as an open development platform and some feel <a href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone">passionately</a> about it.</p> <p>Feedback on the <a href="http://www.nokiausa.com/A4486901">E90</a> welcome!</p> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:44:00 -0400 urn:uuid:c9a283d5-2c36-44e7-b85a-6d769ba47c23 Bill McGonigle http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/10/04/palm-linux-phone-slips-another-year Wireless Palm Internet Open Source Linux Telecommunications http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/trackback/4703 <p>Update: Apple goes <a href="http://origin.mercurynews.com/business/ci_7204987" rel="nofollow">open</a>.</p> Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:14:47 -0400 urn:uuid:4786bbcb-b4fe-4eaf-b885-e00cfb8b69b0 http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/10/04/palm-linux-phone-slips-another-year#comment-121 <p>OpenMoko is great, but only targeting GSM hardware at the moment, and I live in CDMA country.</p> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:07:50 -0400 urn:uuid:32e2db1a-a799-40ac-a705-d550950d6deb http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/10/04/palm-linux-phone-slips-another-year#comment-105 <p>How about OpenMoko?</p> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:20:50 -0400 urn:uuid:b9697ef3-c7e0-43dc-806b-94911f3e7cb0 http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/10/04/palm-linux-phone-slips-another-year#comment-104