@Nostalgia: In 2004, we had a dream of IP Telephony Ubiquity and softswitches connecting IP to SS7 world. The process become very slow in last five years.
@Dream2Reality Rather than using these mobile phones,we could actually be using a nokia communicator sort of device running hard real time open source OS but the system could still be open rather then conventionally closed one. The phone related hardware could be attached with it making a PC based phone system.Linux and netbsd both have huge driver base and they could be deployed for it. 'Phone' virtual machine may also be a case for consideration. There is another dream - WIMAX and LTE replacing need of 3G/4G. The communications device market has been converging but still we are far from unified standards. @Coming_Back_To _2010 It'd be really nice to have phones based on real-time variants of bsd, ubuntu, fedora, debian and the user should be given power to manage his phone. Real issue is 'driver' front. Qualcomm will never give you their CDMA 2000 chipset docs. Still, it's expected that vendors at least make this phone OS based environment more user manageable. their CPUs are cute babies only, so i never dream of compiling Linux 2.6.32 on them but still many things can be done yet. -- Mohit Singh ------------------ Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
