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Sony Ericsson P990i running Ubuntu?

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 2:00 AM

What do have we here? Sony Ericsson P990i running Ubuntu Linux? Apparently, this guy succeeded to jump around smartphone’s system and to make some mobile version of Ubuntu working on it. On the other hand, people argue that it’s all a BS. What do you say? (via: Engadget)

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • asd

    Terribly fake

  • Raidium

    Idk…Looks possible. I mean some people out there have the skills and training for things like this, I can see it being real.

  • lewis

    you probably believe the matrix is real aswell…. look at how the keyboard lights are already on before he “turns on” the mobile, i am an electronics engineer and i can tell you that there is no simple linking you can do that will enable you to run linux, its purely a software matter trying to put another operating system on a mobile is based on decoding the firmware already installed and creating an entirely new linux protocol or making a emulator to run on symbian but of course not many symbian phones how powerful hardware to make this viable. there are emulators for wm on symbian phones its a matter off translating firmware protocols.