standard API for linux phones?

[michael at michaelshiloh.com]

I'm not sure if this is useful. It sounds a bit more like a marketing group.
You have to pay a fee to join.



On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Dean Collins wrote:

> Long overdue and if it is a standard then lets all jump onboard and work
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-
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>> bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Robin Paulson
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>> Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 7:16 PM
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>> To: community
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>> Subject: standard API for linux phones?
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>> the register has a piece about a draft of a standard API for linux
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>> phones, concerning basics such as interaction with the address book,
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>> texting, ui and voice-calling. future revisons to increase the
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/lips_mobile_linux/
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>> and from TFA
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>> http://www.lipsforum.org/
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>> does anyone here have any further knowledge about this, beyond the
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>> blurb on the site? is it worth adhering to, or a thinly-veiled
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>> atttempt for one company (it's backed by orange) to foist
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>> propietary/their own standards on everyone else? does it compare at
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>> all to what the linux mobile group (backed by samsung, motorola and
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>> others) are trying to achieve? and of course, has it been considered
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>> for openmoko/the neo?
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