AOL Buys Linux Phone Provider
August 9, 2005 | In: Cellular Phones, Linux Gadgets, Open Source
Wildseed, an American company that was the first to offer a Linux-based mobile phone in the US has been bought by America Online. Wildseed has been targeting the teen market with dual-band GSM/GPRS Linux fashion phones that feature unique snap-on ‘Smart Skins‘ themed around popular entertainers. These ‘Smart Skins‘ contain chips that interface with the phone’s processor via a serial connection, supplying the unit with ringtones, images and software specific to that skin’s particular theme.
AOL seems to be in the process of re-invigorating its AOL Wireless division. In addition to Wildseed, AOL has also recently snapped-up Tegic, a vendor of predictive text-input software for keypads, and XDrive, an Internet storage space vendor.
More details can be found at the PC Magazine article here.
[via LinuxDevices]
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