The Death of the Greenphone 121
phobos13013 writes "Trolltech announced this week that they will discontinue development on their Greenphone platform. The Greenphone was advertised to be the first phone with a user-modifiable environment. Trolltech CTO Benoit Schilling stated that they are not really a hardware company and so will focus their efforts on FIC's Neo 1973, now available. However, Schilling hinted at a future Wi-Fi-enabled endeavor (possibly a VOIP phone)."
Re:This article is not a Troll (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit) [wikipedia.org]
Which is what KDE uses.
Re:Trolltech's Canopy (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Neo 1973 (Score:3, Informative)
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_under_QEMU [openmoko.org]
Re:Trolltech's Canopy (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050524172943589 [groklaw.net]
Re:Odd (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Neo1973 (Score:3, Informative)
but it is not looking good. My contract is up soon so I might not mind trying Neo but they sure don't look ready for business.
Current estimates [openmoko.org] suggests the Neo1973 GTA02v4 (the production version) will be shipping at the end of December. But I think all bets are off as to whether the software will be of "production quality" by then (whatever "production quality" means these days - every production phone I've owned in the past 5 years has been an unstable piece of crap anyway).
I understand that you can run Qtopia on the devices though, which is a bit more usable as a phone than OpenMoko at the moment, but from what I've read there are serious battery-life problems when running Qtopia.