Hi all, What are your observations re available/soon-to-be-available 'nix based open cell phones, supporting voip, gps and speech output?
Many of you recommended the Nokia E71 as a good cell phone with a sip stack... if it would only talk for me... Nokia released the N900 in Europe last week. A Maemo-based (rooted in linux) hybrid cellphone/tablet but still pocketable I guess. Pseudo open source with applications already available... gps and voip clients are my primary interests along with vocal (synthesized speech) access to all features of the device... I am blind so fancy gui's are no good. Speex is mentioned as being avvailable for the N900, but I'm dubious about its usefuleness for a blind user. The Iphone 3gs looks quite good, but has to be jailbroken to install many apps of interest. In it's favour, it has voiceover to provide speech access to it's capabilities. Android looks interesting but a real device using it still is vaporware afaik. OpenMako... what happened to it? Are there any other 'nix-based solutions? Preferably open source and with speech enabling software? I use 'speakup', a cli/text-only screen review application that is currently available as modules in packages from Debian, ubuntu and a few other linux distros, or it can be patched into the kernel source and compiled yourself. This is great for a x86 desktop/laptop/netbook, but afaik not yet running on any arm-based devices. Excuse me here, I'm diverging from the topic... open cellphone with voip, gps, speech capabilities. Comments? TIA --terry -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-4949 E-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
