Re: [OT] Smartphones

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> What I was thinking was to maybe get an iPAQ with a compact flash 
> slot, put Linux on it...with a CF slot, and use a...Compact Flash 
> GSM/GPRS CF card. 

I don't think that would work. I haven't read how Android deals with 
this, but OpenMoko (http://www.openmoko.com/), the other open source 
phone platform, talks about how they had to keep the communication stack 
that talks to the phone hardware proprietary. I'd guess that a GSM CF 
card would similarly require a proprietary driver, or only support data 
communications. 

  -Tom 

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