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Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @10:57AM from the toys-for-penguins dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Trolltech, best known for its Qt graphics framework and toolkit that form the basis of KDE, will ship the Greenphone, an open Linux-based phone in September. The working GSM/GPRS mobile phone features a user-modifiable Linux OS, and is meant to jumpstart a third-party native application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones. Users will be able to re-flash the phone with modified Linux-based firmware, via a mini-USB port. The device is based on an unspecified Linux kernel along with Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE) application framework and mobile phone stack. Gosh, this has gotta be the perfect phone for KDE lovers!"

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Skype (Score:3, Funny)

by tsa ( 15680 ) writes: on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @11:07AM (#15910294) Homepage

Cool! Can it run Skype [skype.net]?

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Kphone (Score:5, Funny)

by camcorder ( 759720 ) writes: on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @11:09AM (#15910304)

Kphone is the name that KDE users will mostprobably call it, not Greenphone. Greenphone is GNOMEish.

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Re:Wow... (Score:3, Funny)

by Orange Crush ( 934731 ) writes: on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @12:57PM (#15911135)

Think this makes it a phone for supper geeks.

PENGUIN: It's what's for dinner!

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Re:Skype (Score:3, Funny)

by shreevatsa ( 845645 ) writes: <shreevatsa.slash ... m minus caffeine> on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @01:04PM (#15911184)

Maybe it can't run Skype, but it will have the cool "voice chat" [uncyclopedia.org] feature!

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Re:I fear it is destined for failure... (Score:2, Funny)

by Ixne ( 599904 ) writes: on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @01:57PM (#15911599)

PC Load Letter? WTF does that mean?

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