Frost & Sullivan has given its 2006 Product Innovation Award in the field of "ambient intelligence" to Eurotech SpA, for its wearable wrist-worn personal computer (WWPC). The WWPC runs Windows CE and features hands-free operation, wireless networking, GPS tracking, and patent-pending power management technology.
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CrunchGear takes a look at the Qtopia Greenphone. Its equipped with a early version of Qtopia's mobile linux for Smartphones. This linux powered phone is being marketed out to developers to get started on making linux apps mobile. It will run on any GSM network and sells for $695.
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Following the release earlier this year of its fully programmable Linux handset, the Greenphone, Trolltech will soon be offering handset manufacturers and developers "out-of-the-box" software suites--including the operating system and applications--in a similar approach to that taken by Symbian and Windows Mobile. Greensuite is built upon Qtopia Phone edition, Trolltech's application platform for embedded Linux-based phones.
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The Pepperpad 3 is a handheld 7" touchscreen PC with a simplified user interface and built-in thumbboard through which one can access suite of computing and entertainment functions. It's really a low end PC using the AMD Geode LX800 CPU. The operating system is Fedora Core 4 Linux and the graphical user interface is the Pepper Keeper/Desktop from Pepper Computing.
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Linux users have been salivating over Trolltech's promised Greenphone for the better part of a year. The "open" Linux phone platform, powered by Trolltech's Qtopia 4 embedded software stack, is bundled with a Qtopia software development kit (SDK) designed to kick-start mobile Linux application development. The first batch of devices has now shipped, and I spent a couple of weeks with a review unit. While it's an interesting package, it's only a first step and in no way a finished product.
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The Rokr E6 was previously known as the E690, when it was announced in September. The device has been approved by the FCC for distribution in the U.S., but is unlikely to see distribution here for several reasons.
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Palm's purchase of expanded rights to the Palm OS source code—including to use it "in any product from Palm and together with any other system technologies"—is not so much about getting the right to develop more products on the aging Palm OS Garnet platform. It's more likely about getting the right to add Garnet compatibility to a next-generation Palm OS that Palm themselves will develop. ACCESS didn't gain Palm as a licensee for its ACCESS Linux Platform, but if Palm turns Garnet into an execution environment that runs on two (or more) platforms, this may give new lif
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Check out Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's thoughts on Windows Mobile and the smartphone market. He calls Palm and BlackBerry devices niche players!
"When it comes to smart devices, there really aren't that many players. Basically, you have Nokia/Symbian, you've got us. Actually, I'll be so bold as to say that the two of us stand out in that area. Then you have some guys who are more niche players--Palm is more of a niche player, (Research In Motion's) BlackBerry is more of a niche player, those Linux devices from Motorola, particularly in China, (mean it) is more of a niche player."
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Michael Mace's take on the recent licensing of Garnet by Palm.
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