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Enter Moblin, Yet Another Mobile Linux effort, directly from Intel.

Looks interesting as others did before. But will it turn out to be something more than words, words, words, and Photosh… I mean, Gimp-ed mock-ups?

Time will tell. In the meantime, I’m betting €5,00 on NO.

Trolltech, maker of Qt, the framework upon which KDE is based, and its lightweight counterpart Qtopia, after entering the smartphone software business with its QTopia Phone Edition, is now aiming at hardware with this Qtopia Greenphone.

Do you mean I’d finally be able to sync my Kontact data with my phone, and be officially welcomed to the 1990s?

The feature set is by no means impressive, and at US$700 you can’t say it’s cheap, though the price is for a development device, to be bundled with SDK licenses, and may or may not reflect actual street prices. There’s no indication that the device will eventually be marketed.

But the worst news is there is no WiFi.

I sincerely hope this is just a development device. Otherwise, see you next time.