Surj Patel is a geek who is making his own homebrew GSM mobile phone using a diminutive Linux-on-a-chip and a black-box GSM stack. It's a long row to hoe, but if he can get this to a science and make kits, I'd build one. Man, how cool would it be to own a homemade cellphone?
I want a linux cellphone that i can program in any damn language I want. I want to access the call controls and I want to access the data layer. I don't want to pay 3000 dollars or more for a rip off membership for a carrier developer program nor do I want to accept half assed functionality in walled gardens. I'm a developer and hacker and I want my phone to do what I need it to so that I can make applications that I want to use.
If you cant join em, beat em. Time to make a Linux GSM Phone. At home.
Okay. So I have been thinking about this for a while now and now the time has come to get started and also enlist the help of the greater community in getting this project done and also in expanding its realm. I am the first to admit i can take things so far then after that its up to the experts.
(Thanks, Ben!)
