I’m probably going to offend some folks with the following statement, but it has to be said: The majority of open source work out there is not innovative and is merely a free, usually inferior, version of what has already been done on either Windows or Mac.
Binky is the code name for version 3 of the Poky operating system. It is based on X11, GTK+ and the Matchbox Window Manager.
Honestly it looks like the result of a drunken sexcapade between Windows Mobile and Palm. I can’t recommend this, but it is interesting none the less to see what else is out there in the mobile space. You’re going to see more companies make Linux phones because anything to shave those last few dollars off their bill of materials yields them more profit. Take Symbian for example, rumor has is that a licence for that particular operating system runs around 6 dollars per device. Nokia sold 13.9 million devices running S60 in Q2 2007, that is $83.4 million dollars not going into their pocket.
Money well spent.
[Via: OS News]
[More pictures over at Linux Devices]