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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Software

Else Intuition: The Surprisingly Not-Sad Fate Of Palm OS

2:33AM John Herrman | In 2006, Access bought the rights to Palm OS, and licensed the code to Palm. Access spent plenty of time and money developing a next-gen OS, which Palm totally ignored for their own. Things looked grim! Until this thing. More »
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Design

Mimique Mobile Phone Concept

10:50PM Addy Dugdale | If anyone ever brings out a phone that looks like this, I’ll have 10 of them, thangyewverymuch. A proposal of Californian design studio RKS, the Mimique is all about skins and downloads—a customizable phone with bells on, basically—using, as it does, open source software. I just love that old-school antenna bump and the analogue clock. See another picture of it after the jump. More »
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Phones

LiMo Mobile Linux Becomes “Preferred OS” for Verizon

11:30PM Matt Buchanan | It looks like Verizon Wireless is super duper committed to open development, because they’ve just joined the LiMo Foundation board of directors. LiMo is “an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.” Verizon isn’t dropping support for Android (or any other OS) as a result of the move, but LiMo will become their “preferred OS,” with the first handsets dropping in 2009, starting out as simpler devices and moving into more complicated ones as they “get smarter.” Unfortunately, it looks like the clunky red UI you’ve grown to loathe will remain intact, however. This gives Verizon a fair bit of say in how mobile Linux develops as well—and provides yet more competition for Android. Full press release below. More »
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