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Contents 1 Proposals 1.1 Open Phone Proposal 2 Projects 2.1 Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club 2.1.1 website 2.1.2 news 2.2 opencellphone.org 2.2.1 website 2.3 TuxPhone 2.3.1 website 2.4 Xanadux 2.4.1 website 2.4.2 pros 2.4.3 cons 2.5 OpenEZX 2.5.1 website 2.5.2 pros 2.5.3 cons 2.5.4 notes 2.6 Linux on Treo 650 2.6.1 website 2.7 Handhelds.org 2.7.1 website 2.8 iPAQ phone 2.8.1 website 2.9 HTC BlueAngel 2.9.1 website 2.10 Mobile Linux Platform Foundation 2.11 OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative 3 Cellphones 3.1 Trolltech Green Phone 3.2 XDA Developers 3.2.1 website 3.3 Motorola 3.3.1 website 3.3.2 notes 4 People

Proposals

Open Phone Proposal

• link to proposal
• project that sparked the homebrew mobile club

Projects

Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club

website

http://telefono.revejo.org/

news

• Article about DIY phone project
  • their successor to the razr is scpl

opencellphone.org

website

http://www.opencellphone.org

TuxPhone

This project is really the same as opencellphone.org

website

http://www.opencellphone.org

Xanadux

This project is for getting linux onto HTC's smartphones. These phones are everywhere, but branded differently.

website

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Xanadux

pros

• farthest along in getting these HTC phones to work
• lots of documentation on each phone and code released
• decent sized community

cons

• still not standard enough for anyone to install on
• the HTC phones are not that nice spec-wise
• working on many different phones
• hard to find information on their website

OpenEZX

website

• http://openezx.org/
• http://wiki.openezx.org
• http://planet.openezx.org

pros

• Motorola has released packages for certain phones already
• Motorola phones are designed well
• led by large figures in Free Software and Open Source

cons

• still at an early stage

notes

• Harold Welte interview

Linux on Treo 650

website

• http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/PalmTreo650

Handhelds.org

Of course this project is huge and encompasses several different projects.

website

• http://www.handhelds.org

iPAQ phone

This is for an ipaq6315. It sounds very sorted out actually.

website

http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH6315

HTC BlueAngel

This is a project similar to XDA developers, but on handhelds.org

website

• http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BlueAngel

Mobile Linux Platform Foundation

This is a plan by 6 companies to develop this shared software. Read about the news of this.

OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative

Yet again, this looks like it is incubating.

Cellphones

Trolltech Green Phone

• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5201088922.html
• http://www.trolltech.com/products/qtopia/phone_edition/greenphone/

XDA Developers

Information for people to hack on HTC cellphones.

website

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/

Motorola

website

• http://opensource.motorola.com/
• http://www.motorolafans.com/i

notes

• Good interview with moto head of open source about linux on their phones
• looks like moto is moving to linux all around!
• major criticism of motorola's open source

People

• Matt Hamrick
• Jon Phillips
• Harold Welte - openezx project lead
• Pavel Machek