{"id":1954,"date":"2005-11-09T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1954\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:29:53","slug":"1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1954","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Surj Patel Web Site has details on a project that sounds sort of cool&#8230; It is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surjpatel.com\/\" \/>Linux based Cellphone<\/a>. You purchase a GSM module, and build up the phone from that. Believe it or not I have already done a lot of the work on this myself. Most of the technology is in the module, and the only hard work is in displaying the information, and providing the user interface.<\/p>\n<p>And believe it or not, most of the modules on the market have the same interface so changing between modules is easy. But given the price of cellphones these days I dont know that there is any use in doing an open source cellphone. It does give control, but I dont think the results would be as good. Companies like Nokia spend a lot of money designing their cellphones. <\/p>\n<p>Wired magazine has a story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/print\/0,1294,69355,00.html\">10 worst software bugs ever<\/a>. It makes an interesting list, with some being intentional and some being unintentional. Some were lethal, and some were just a pain. It is an interesting read, although I have read about these stories many times before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Surj Patel Web Site has details on a project that sounds sort of cool&#8230; It is a Linux based Cellphone. You purchase a GSM module, and build up the phone from that. Believe it or not I have already &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1954\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1954","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}