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<!-- 1 -->The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation has announced seven new shipping mobile handsets -- from Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic -- that are said to comply with its mobile phone specification. The consortium also announced 11 new members, including Telecom Italia, Freescale, VirtualLogix, Movial, and PacketVideo.

The seven new models from Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic brings the total number of shipping LiMo-compliant handsets to 21. Although the three companies have already been shipping other LiMo compliant models, the new announcements continue to add to the momentum LiMo has been building since February, when it announced the first wave of LiMo handsets, along with 18 new members.

Source: http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64033.html
The past two years have ushered in three new open source efforts focused on bringing the software to the mobile phone platform: The Open Handset Alliance, the LiMo Foundation and Symbian, the platform Nokia is intent on opening up following its full purchase. This could bring a slew of new options to consumers, but success may require a certain amount of cooperation among the competitors.
When it comes to cell phone software, open is the new black. In less than two years, no fewer than three coalitions have formed with the intent of building mobile handset operating systems with input from all comers. Suddenly the business of developing mobile software -- once handled by coders working behind closed doors for a single vendor or group -- has gone open source.

Source: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9009046382.html

<!-- 1 2 3 4 5 -->LogMeIn announced a beta plugin for Nokia's Linux-based N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. The LogMeIn Nokia N800/810 Browser Plugin enables Internet Tablet users to access and control their Windows PCs or Macs running the free or commercial versions of LogMeIn.

(Click for larger view of WiMAX version of Nokia N810)

This is a howto for syncing a Nokia 5500 Sport Smartphone with Evolution. Testsystem: Kubuntu Hardy (8.04).

Read this Thread and do what it tells you

"HOWTO: Sync Nokia E-series Phone with Evolution via Bluetooth"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260676

but adjust it as told here:

2. Install required software
It should work with the recommended tools
(I used these: "opensync-plugin-evolution opensync-plugin-file opensync-plugin-syncml opensyncutils multisync-tools multisync0.90")

3. Configure msynctool

Plugin evo2-sync: leave default

Plugin syncml-obex-client:

Pleyo and Sand-Labs.org have released a third-generation beta version of their Webkit-based, open source browser for consumer-electronics devices. Supporting generic GTK, Access Linux Platform, or SDL (simple direct layer), Origyn Web Browser (OWB) targets consumer devices such as phones, portable media players, and set-top boxes.

<!-- --> The OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner lives up to its billing as a completely open source, hackable hardware platform, says an Ars Technica first look. Yet that very openness, including its choice of three mobile stacks, adds to the confusion for Linux developers, says the article.

(Click for larger view of the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner)

Google has made a habit of throwing its considerable weight behind a project and making it succeed. The company's Android project, its effort at creating a Linux-based smartphone, is running into delays, while a similar effort by the LiMo Foundation already has produced handsets.

Making good software for mobile phones is hard -- even for a technically adept company like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) .

The already crowded open source mobile phone software market just got more so as Nokia has announced plans to open up the Symbian operating system. Symbian currently has the biggest installed base of any mobile OS, which makes this announcement somewhat more surprising—market leaders generally do not radically change their successful methods. What it means for the various Linux mobile phone initiatives is unclear, but it certainly shakes things up a bit.

Nokia, along with many of the biggest players in the mobile phone market, has formed the Symbian Foundation to provide its members with the OS on a royalty-free basis. Several other components are being donated to the foundation as well, to create a complete platform for mobile applications. The plan is for all of the code to be released using the Eclipse Public License over the next two years.