http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2986976174.html
One of the world's largest computer and consumer electronics manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International Computing's (FIC's) "Neo1973" or FIC-GTA001, is the first phone based on the open-source "OpenMoKo" platform.
The Neo1973 will also ship with an "apt-get-like" software manager that makes it trivial to add, remove, and update applications packaged in the OpenEmbedded package format, including "literally thousands of existing open source applications from the OpenZaurus, Familiar Linux, and Angstrom projects," according to Michael Lauer, founder of OpenEmbedded and an early OpenMoko developer.
Who ever thought that you could actually do 'apt-get' inside a smartphone? :)) This baby will definitely give me opensource mobile bliss...
I think I'll call my sister in the US to have one of these shipped to me :)) hehehehe!
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