Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Shay Ohayon wrote:

> There is also a talk given by Gilad Ben-Yoseff (anyone know if the
> slides of the presentation are available somewhere?) and the
> documentation for development is pretty good.
>   
Slides and video of the lecture (thanbks to Yael Vaya and Crictor) are here:
http://tuxology.net/lectures/google-android-open-source-phone-stack/
> Hebrew support is fine, you just install the fonts and its there
> (gilad also has a post about this) and someone wrote an application
> called "hebkeys"  that i havent tested but gives you a virtual
> keyboard on screen for hebrew typing.
>   

The fonts are on my blog http://firstpost.org/.

Hebkeys, by Hezi Cohen, is here: http://code.snippets.co.il/hebkey
and the latest pre-release version also supports the hardware keyboard 
of the G1.

>> This makes me look into direction of Android G1. It is too young to
>> have elaborated applications support, but it already has
>>     

Actually, the application support for Android is remarkably good for 
something which is only commercially available for 6 months. For 
example, I just spotted today a Home screen widget that displays Haaretz 
news headlines (in Hebrew) in the Android application market today...

My bottom line would be: if X is openess of the phone stack and Y is 
it's quality, then Android based phones have the highest X*Y ratio I know...

Gilad


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