[Arm-netbook] "smarter" phone

[Zsolt Sztupak]

On 28 May 2013, at 11:51, Neal Peacock <neal at nic-stix.com> wrote:

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> Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Philip Hands wrote:
>>> "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:
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>>>> http://www.c2mtl.com/eye50/ideas/smarter-phone/
>>>> 
>>>> wooow.  i love it.
>>> 
>>> Nice.
>>> 
>>> Not _very_ related, but another phone that someone mentioned on
>> Planet
>>> Debian recently, that might pique interest here:
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>>>   http://www.fairphone.com/
>>> 
>>> in particular their attempts to find manufacturer's that don't rub
>> their
>>> ethics up the wrong way.
>> 
>> given the very closed and protective nature of MTK, I fail to see how 
>> a phone using their SoC can be "fair"...
>> 
>> 
> 
> The MTK kernel source is out finally.  Alcatel has released it for processors up to even the recent quad core.

Still kinda useless (if you want to modify Android) without the Android platform code that was changed. You might try with AOSP or CM, but it will be buggy, and you'll simply lose a lot of features the MTK Android has (like dual SIM support)

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