Greenphone Killed Off?
Engadget Mobile reports that Trolltech has sold their last Greenphone and is recommending OpenMoko hardware if you want to try out their software. I don’t see anything about this on the Trolltech site however. Last time I spoke to the folks at Trolltech they were talking about further iterations to the hardware and really refining what they were working on. Still, consolidating under the OpenMoko hardware platform feels somewhat like “standardizing on a platform”, so I’m not going to bitch too much.
I ran into someone at one of the MoMo events (at Trolltech interestingly enough) who had a hacked up version of Qtopia phone edition running on some commercial hardware. I think it might have been the Netgear Skype handset. Sure would be cool if they would release info about how to get something like that going. Ultimately the Greenphone didn’t match up with what I would like to see, with a few of the core components being closed. Maybe Motorola will release a Qtopia handset that helps out us open source developers (I’m not holding my breath for that, I hear Motorola mentioned at the same time as Linux on a daily basis but I’ve yet to figure out what the hell it is they’re working on). But it would be nice to see Trolltech giving their existing developers an easy way forward rather then dropping them off to some other project to fend for themselves.
