Re: [LAU] OT: linux phone?

One that hasn't been mentioned so far, non-free firmware (I believe) but making use of the armel debian repos: Titchy Mobile on the HTC Universal. (Yep! Debian on a phone!) http://wiki.neilandtheresa.co.uk/Titchy_Mobile which can make calls and send sms from the commandline, and receive them via a whiptail dialog interface. You can run X, and ppp over gprs/umts is also supported, according the wiki Wifi used to work, is now unstable, but will probably be fixed sometime. Definitely an alpha environment, but fun! It's a sort of un-sponsored, in-the-teeth-of-the-manufacturers effort. The handset is clunky and unfashionably huge, but with a unique swivel-screen arrangement that might tweak your tech-toy neurons :) There are other linux images available for the Universal including qtopia, http://linuxtogo.org/~htcpxa/htcuniversal/index.html but development has severely slowed there.