Open Source Mobile Phones

Examples

OpenMoko

See OpenMoko and its Open Mobile Telephony platform

Motorola's MIDP

Motorola's Mobile Information Device Profiles

"By making the frameworks and test cases available via an open source project, Motorola said it wants to encourage development of Java-based mobile phone software, which is difficult to do because the platform is so fragmented, particularly in the area of testing frameworks.

"Right now, every handset manufacturer has their own test harness. There is no way to run a consistent test and we have thousands of tests on dozens of harnesses," said Mark VandenBrink, senior director and chief architect for Motorola Mobile Devices. "We're offering test cases to it so there's one unified test harness to make sure that [applications] interoperate." (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3606331)