[Gpe-list] New GPE daughter project - GPE Phone Edition!

[Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

Great News Nils!!!

2007/2/5, Nils Faerber <nils.faerber at kernelconcepts.de>:
> Hello dear fellow GPE developers and users!
>
> We are very proud to announce a new free and open source daughter
> project of GPE - the GPE Phone Edition project!
>
> When I write "we" it in fact means quite a number of people including
> Florian Boor and me, as well as a whole team of people from the Research
> and Development Lab of Orange/Francetelecom in Beijing, China!
>
> The whole project started about a year ago when Orange/FT Beijing lab
> contacted us for "just some questions about GPE". It turned out that
> Orange/FT is a major player on the foundation of the LiPS Forum
> (http://www.lipsforum.org) and that they wanted to probably base LiPS
> compliant implementations for their test purposes upon GPE.
>
> Over the following little more than twelve months Florian and me
> consulted them. The people at the Orange/FT lab did an amazing job and
> after checking some legal strings now release their hard work into the
> open source! And this is what makes most of GPE Phone Edition at the
> current moment.
>
> The current code reflects the architecture that has been defined by the
> LiPS Forum and combines this with developments from GPE and other open
> source projects.
>
> The result is now an open sourced software stack which can handle a GSM
> compliant mobile modem for making voice calls, handling the SIM address
> book and sending and receiving SMS. Also some additional application
> exist e.g. for media playback, instant messaging and email.
>
> Well, long story short, we wanted to let you know before we call the
> masses ;)
>
> So come and have a look at
>         http://gpephone.linuxtogo.org
>
> We have some screenshots there and even a downloadable VMware image
> using which you can try the whole thing in a virtual phone on your PC -
> if you connect a GSM Modem (like an existing phone) to /dev/GSM-Modem
> you should probably even be able to use the full phone functionality
> (access SIM card, send/receive SMS, make a call!).
>
> All the sources are there too, in SVN and as downloadable tar-balls
> accompanied with a bunch of documentations. The corresponding bitbake
> build files will be uploaded to Open Embedded soon too.
>
> We would be happy to see you there!
>
> Cheers
>   nils faerber
>
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