Smartphones With Linux

[Da_Blitz]

try out the mgetty pacakges, they can be hacked together to do what you need (make sure to get the fax enabled one) other than that you could write a quick daomon that looks for the phone ring signal and then plays a sound and reads /dev/input/event* and picks up on a button push. it depends on how they divide up the buttons (if its all one device then you may need a work around

the fat thing is a known problem, that is why there is that spining ball thing, dont pull out before that disappears, if it still happens then it might be a faulty SD card, there are known problems with certin SD cards and PDAs, its well documented at aximsite.com

for the rotation thing that has to do with the CPU hitting 100% not "bad memory handeling" if you feel its a problem you can fiddle with the glyph cache settings and bump it up a bit, this helps in games as well

i would definiattly invest in the resco range of products (file browser and rego editor) as they can help with some things (like the umount and it has an fdisk )

widows CE (was a typo but i thoght i would leave it) is rock solid until you add 3rd party apps the more you add the more unstable it gets

also if you want to share stuff on a wlan then you need an http server (free ware) or an ftp server (dont ask me haw i got it, just know i got it ) you will also want to try and get a 3rd party connection app as the windows wifi one sucks, the one that came with my dell x30 is great and with a trip to xda developers and thier rom extraction tool you can rip it out of the ROMs on dell, the other option is the socket connect app but it hides details and tries to look pretty. might also want the broadcomm bluetooth upgrade for wm5.0, it does wonders (bluetooth arvp a2dp and hid mouse/keyboard)

[Ferret-Simpson]

Hmm. . I activated my PDA today and it connected straight to my Wlan. Stayed connected all day. :/ Right, ok.

Note to self. DivX does NOT work right on Windows Mobile 5, and it refuses to uninstall. PocketIE sucks, doesn't it? I'm quite impressed by Minimo actually. . Although i do wish it wasn't 8MB. . . And considering this thing is supposed to do Polyphonic ringtones the Midi synth is pretty bad. A few of he tracks I've put through it (All of the songs from FF1-7) have come out awfully.

[lpotter]

There's also the ROAD handy pc that runs linux. and It does use Qtopia Phone as well.
http://www.road-gmbh.de/en/produkte/index_01.html

The Philips 968 and Zte's E3 run linux, but they are only available in China.

[desertrat]

Heh, Actually I haven't had the BSOD. . .

M$ ran out of money to fully implement that, so ...

Before my first reset it just locked up,

... it just simply locks up, sometimes it is even kind enough show the busy "cursor" (that icon that spins in the middle of the screen).

and since then it's been pretty much stable.

Yeah  Back when I was still using my Asus 730W it never went more than 3 days without having to reset, some days I had to reset multiple times. Contrast it with my Psion 5 which had a total of about 3 resets over 7 years of constant use, and my Psion 3 which never required a reset during several years of use.

I like the Today screen,

Not sure about later versions, but WM2003SE (and most likely earlier versions) had a crap Today screen, that is why there are so many add-ons and semi-replacements to remedy its deficiencies.

but the Media player is shockingly poor

yep, total crap. TCPMP is much better.

[Ferret-Simpson]

Now what I could go for right now, is ReactOS Mobile Alpha 5.  Unfortunately, I don;t think that's likely. I'm assuming the WM CE/PP API is very different from the Desktop API. . .?

[michael_barnes]

I think the Green Phone looks pretty promising;


http://www.trolltech.com/

http://linuxdevices.com/files/misc/qtopia_...nt_and_back.jpg

[Ferret-Simpson]

Wasn't there an entire thread on that one a couple' days back?

[nilch]

Seems like another phone (don't know if its a smartphone, but any phone with Wifi and Opera should clasify as smartphone) with Linux on it

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6731

Its a D-Link phone and will be unlocked handset.
Not much details about the underlying OS layers and all that.

[koen]

Seems like another phone (don't know if its a smartphone, but any phone with Wifi and Opera should clasify as smartphone) with Linux on it

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6731

Its a D-Link phone and will be unlocked handset.
Not much details about the underlying OS layers and all that.
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