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DIY Linux cellphone
linuxdevices.com — A vendor of tiny, Linux-based computer modules will soon begin offering a set of building blocks that can be used by "hobbyists who want to build their own [Linux] phone."
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- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -12/+5How long before the ignorant FCC cracks down on such phones?
- kunjan1029, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12FCC cannont, because the hardware used is FCC certified.
- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12For those hard core developers you can goto sparkfun and buy the components to just about anything. cellphone, cameras, gps, LCDs, yada yada yada
http://www.sparkfun.com/- kunjan1029, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Sparkfun doesnt sell a Cellular module that is EDGE. The ones they sell are GPRS only. This is the first one that is EDGE too. Plus Gumstix has a big Dev community around it. I see openmoko running on it pretty soon. For a cellphone project running on gumstix see this: http://www.opencellphone.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I can see it now...
The first Star-Trek (TOS) communicator that's a real phone (not just a bluetooth accessory) and navigation device. - rudy23, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1"hobbyists" = johns?
- jman8888, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1how does it work on a network
- ronin691, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_radio_access_network
- Vinvin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That has potential for OpenMoko :D
- crippledlemming, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1obligatory The year of the Linux cellphone comment.....
- crippledlemming, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1obligatory The year of the Linux cellphone comment...
- jimbo340, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Double Post. Obligatory?
- naio, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1OK, this is lame.
- dictum, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I would love to see something marketable come of this.
- ronin691, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Oh Dugg big time! Nice find deviceguru.
- saharmalika, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0i don't really think that it's gonna be marketable. i heard it doesn't even support peekamo at all on it...
- dephrye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Oh sure, if it doesn't support the latest social networks it's dead in the water... jackass.
- Slacker99, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2It will only be marketable if it will run Phonebutu and then Dell will sell it
- cantormath, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hopefully sooner then later.......
- zozue49, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2But will it run Linux? ...Oh wait!
- stipwr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I like the gumstix and all and have used them in the past and have been waiting for this module for a long time. I've found they are a bit limiting in what you can do though as with this all you end up with is a GSM module and the main board. I actually came across some other similar product recently thats the same general idea -- http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6964826548.html -- but you can connect many different modules together. Sparkfun seems to have started selling them now too. Unfortunately no GSM yet :( But I did ask a few weeks ago and apparently they are working on something too...
Its an interesting concept and I'd still like to play with one of these none-theless. - LordofShadows, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This just oozes all kinds of awesomeness...
- Livewired, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wow! I've been looking for a new project to play around with. This looks like the ticket.
- bwilly79, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why don't any of these open source phone ideas cater towards CDMA? No love out there for the Verizon/Sprint folks.
- ronin691, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sir, Sprint and Verizon refuse to open their networks to "foreign handsets". If you don't buy a phone from them, it will not work at all. Putting one of their SIMs in a non Sprint/Verizon handset doesn't work either. Walled gardens are doomed to fail.
- rac3r5, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wow, if I got this right, I can build my own Cell Phone?
I've been waiting for something like this for a long long time. Is there any forum or user group out there that is working on this? If not, it would be cool to start one.
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