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There is no reason that Smartphone do not support [[Debian]] also.

This page is about to track every initiative to fully or partialy install the system on mobiles :


Smartphone taks is handled by FSO team :

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO


Openmoko's FreeRunner is so far the device best supported :
= Debian on Smartphones/Tablets =

Please add some valuable information to help this project move forward. :)

This page is about tracking every initiative to fully or partially install the system on mobile platforms:

<<TableOfContents(4)>>

== About ==

Debian is the universal operating system. Thus, it needs to run on smartphone/tablet hardware. This wiki page is a tool to help bring Debian to mobile platforms.

It would be great if Debian could run on many kinds of smartphone hardware: iPhones, Android capable HW, Windows Mobile HW, etc.

The software should allow dual booting, into both Debian and any software that came with the hardware.

Debian on smartphones should have GUI capabilities, appropriate to the hardware capabilities.

It would also be great if Debian could run applications written to be native to the original OS for the hardware. This will enable Debian to serve the many people in society who want to easily use those applications.

Debian might benefit from having its own User Interface, or UIs, based on progression from the desktop Debian UIs - ex, GNOME or KDE. It would be great if the GNOME, KDE and other GUI communities could come to agreement on a common UI for Debian, to save unnecessary duplication of development effort, both of the Debian UI, and application software for Debian. Also to save the users from having to learn unnecessary extra UIs.

=== Origin and Purpose ===

To get this wiki page started, see the [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg01554.html|original message]] I sent suggesting this project. It includes some reference URLs, to help seed thinking on Debian on smartphones development.

=== Contributions ===

Many people made useful replies to that email, and it would be great if they would add their suggestions of software components, foundations, and URLs thereof to this page. If we all take a few minutes to make contributions to this page when we have something valuable to add, this page will grow to be a great resource for us all. So, please take a moment to add something valuable to this page right now, or when you have the opportunity. :)

This page could use contributions like: Links to component software (embeded debian, GRUB, UIs, etc).

Software developers can write software for the many parts of this system and put links on this page to those components.

Writers can produce articles about Debian on smartphones in emails to the relevant Debian mailing lists, blogs, web pages and for the general media.

Artists can create the graphics and multimedia for Debian on smartphones.

Packagers can put it all together so people can download and install it on their smartphones.
 
Thanks for reading. Thanks for thinking. Thanks for all contributions you make. Let's all work together to enable Debian to fulfil its promise as "The Universal Operating System". :)


== Contact ==

To chat about Debian on mobile devices, please join the [[irc://irc.debian.org/debian-mobile|#debian-mobile]] IRC channel on irc.debian.org.
 * [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/|debian-mobile mailing list]] is intended to be about the various mobile User Interfaces.

other discussions will be appropriate to have on the following lists instead:

 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-handheld/
 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/
 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/
 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/
 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/
== People ==

Here are some people interested in running Debian on smartphones.

|| '''Name''' || '''IRC nick''' || '''Hardware owned''' || '''Willing to''' || '''Wishlist''' ||
|| [[PaulWise|Paul Wise]] || pabs || !OpenMoko !FreeRunner || Offer advice || Linux mainline support for the FR, !QtMoko in Debian ||
|| [[DidierRaboud|Didier Raboud]] || OdyX || !OpenMoko !FreeRunner || Get paid to work towards Debian on Mobile devices :-p || ||
|| [[SiceloMhlongo|Sicelo Mhlongo]] || Sicelo || Nokia N900 || Help with testing || Working Debian on N900 with UMTS/GPRS access ||
|| [[AlishamsHassam|Alishams Hassam]] || Zeroedout || !OpenMoko !FreeRunner, Google Nexus One || Help maintain wiki, file bugs, test new things || Mainline FR support, !QtMoko in Debian, Debian on the Nexus One, SHR on a Debian base||

= Howto =

== General ==

Learn software development.

Port low-level stuff to a device.

Package some middleware.

Package a user experience.

Package applications that can deal with small screens and touch input.

Build images for users to flash onto the device.

Get hardware to developers.

== Learning ==

At various stages you will need to learn some of the following. This can be done at the same time as working on Debian for smartphones.

 * Languages:
  * ARM assembly: Linux, bootloaders
  * C: Linux, bootloaders, UIs
  * make: build systems
  * Python: middleware, applications
  * Vala: middleware, applications
 * Tools:
  * Version control:
   * git: Linux, middleware, applications
   * svn: UI, applications
   * bzr: applications
  * Compilers: GCC, LLVM, GCC cross-compilers
  * Build systems:
   * make: almost everything
   * autotools: middleware, UI, applications
   * cmake: some things
   * other: Linux and bootloaders might have custom build systems based on make

== Porting ==

Pick a specific device. Get support for it into a bootloader (u-boot/etc), mainline Linux. Ask relevant teams to build linux/bootloader packages that work on your device. Port the debian installer to the device.

This is most of the work. It is important to get your changes into Linux/u-boot mainline otherwise Debian will not be able to support your device since the Linux kernel team for Debian will not add non-mainline drivers/patches to Debian kernels and therefore you won't be able to support Debian on the phone you care about. It will be made easier since the Android drivers probably already exist and can be ported to mainline Linux. Some hardware vendors will be violating the GPL and not releasing drivers/patches. You might be able to get the code by contacting them or getting the SFLC or gplviolations.org involved.

== Middleware ==

Pick some middleware, join the packaging group for it or package it for Debian and look for some sponsors.

Existing middleware includes [[http://freesmartphone.org/|FSO]] (in Debian), [[DebianPackage:ofono|oFono]] (in Debian), [[http://pyneo.org|pyNeo]], Android/MeeGo/Maemo.

== UI ==

Pick a UI or create a new one, create a team, start packaging it for Debian and look for sponsors.

There are numerous existing FLOSS UXen for smartphones and similar devices. As the universal OS, Debian should aim to support several of these.

 * [[http://source.android.com/|Android]]: Canonical [[http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/canonical-developers-aim-to-make-android-apps-run-on-ubuntu.ars|allegedly]] was porting it to Ubuntu two years ago
 * [[http://meego.com/devices/handset|MeeGo]]: there is a general [[Teams/PkgMeeGo|Debian MeeGo packaging team]], they may be interested
 * [[http://maemo.org/|Maemo]]: distribution based on Debian, talk of merging it, [[pkg-n900]] exists
 * [[http://www.gnome.org/mobile/|GNOME Mobile]]: not packaged, [[Teams/DebianGnome|GNOME team]] might be interested?
 * [[http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma-Mobile|KDE Plasma Mobile]]: might already be in Debian, clarify with the KDE team
 * [[http://www.enlightenment.org/|E17]]/Illume: available in Debian now, packaged by the [[PkgE|pkg-e]] team
 * [[http://www.defora.org/|DeforaOS]]: releases Debian packages
 * [[http://qtmoko.org/|QtMoko]]: distribution based on Debian
 * [[http://pyneo.org/|PyNeo]]: distribution based on Debian
 * [[http://www.qalee.org/|Qalee]]: no Debian packaging effort
 * [[http://www.quantum-step.com/|QuantumSTEP]]: no Debian packaging effort
 * [[http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/|GPE]]: already in Debian for years. palmtop, no phone component yet, more suitable for stylus based devices.

== Applications ==

Start an index of touch-screen friendly apps and package some of them.
Most of them will be OpenMoko ones since that was the first free
software friendly phone. So read their wiki and related sites a lot.

== Images ==

Talk to the Debian installer, live and CDs teams about building daily, weekly and release images that people can flash onto their phones. This could significantly change the way Debian images are built so it will require a fair bit of discussion first.

== Other tips ==

If you can get hardware into the hands of kernel developers that would
help a lot. You might find some hardware manufacturers who are willing
to give out some free samples to developers.

== Related projects ==

 * Debian CPU ports: [[http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/|arm]] [[ArmHardFloatPort|armhf]] ([[http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/|mailing list]], [[irc://irc.debian.org/debian-arm|IRC channel]])
 * Debian phone ports: [[DebianOnFreeRunner|OpenMoko FreeRunner]], [[DebianOnNeo1973|OpenMoko Neo1973]], [[pkg-n900|Nokia N900]]
 * External projects:
  * [[http://www.emdebian.org/|Emdebian]]: cut down version of Debian for small and embedded devices
  * [[http://www.freesmartphone.org/|FSO]]: umbrella project for free software on smartphones
  * [[http://shr-project.org/|SHR]]: distribution for smartphones based on OpenEmbedded and FSO softare
  * [[http://www.linaro.org/|Linaro]]: pushes upstream development on ARM, they work on Linux, GCC and related low-level stuff.

= Software Layers =
== Bootloader ==

GRUB u-boot OpeniBoot

== Kernel ==
  Bluetooth <<BR>>
  Cell Phone Network - Phone <<BR>>
  Cell Phone Detwork - Data <<BR>>
  Wifi <<BR>>
  USB <<BR>>

== UI ==

== Applications ==
  Phone <<BR>>
  Internet tethering


= Running original OSs: =
  Android
  Blackberry
  iPhone
  Nokia
  Palm
  Windows

= Other Native Linux non-Android Ports to Android Phones: =

== Native Ubuntu on Nexus S ==

Apparently, Ubuntu can run natively on a Nexus S. Maybe we can learn from this effort and port debian natively to multiple devices:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10486278

== HTC Linux ==

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

=== HTC Dream ( The T-Mobile G1 Phone ) ===

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dream

=== HTC Linux Device List ===

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devices

= Processor Technologies =

== ARM ==
http://arm.com/

=== Samsung ===

= Cell Phone Companies =
  ATT
== Sprint/VirginMobil ==
http://www.virgin.com/gateways/mobile/

  TMobile
  Verizon

= Hardware & Smartphone Manufacturers product models/names =

== Android ==
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod

Android ROM developers
http://forum.xda-developers.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_operating_system

== Blackberry ==

== Huawei ==
== HTC ==
  * [[http://www.android-devs.com/?p=152&cpage=1#comment-25|HTC Nexus1]]

== iPhone ==
== LG ==
== Motorola ==

=== Motorola Droid ===

Report of booting to a native copy of debian:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086302

== Nokia ==


 [[Mobile/Nokia_N9|Nokia N9/N950]]
'''Nokia N9''': Hardware adaptation and other pointers at [[Mobile/Nokia_N9|Nokia N9]] wiki page.

'''Nokia N900''': See [[pkg-n900]] wiki page.

[[http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian|Nokia N800/N810]]

== Openmoko ==

  * [[DebianOnNeo1973|Openmoko Neo1973 (GTA01)]]
  * [[DebianOnFreeRunner|Openmoko FreeRunner (GTA02)]]
  * [[DebianOnGTA04|"Openmoko" GTA04]] is running on Debian rootfs as well [[http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/|[1]]]

== Palm ==

== Samsung ==

Samsung ROMs
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/

=== Intercept ===
Wikipedia Samsung M910 Intercept <<BR>>
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Intercept <<BR>>
 How to root Samsung Intercept: <<BR>>
 http://forum.sdx-developers.com/intercept-development/ <<BR>>
CPU Samsung S3C6410 at 800 MHz <<BR>>
Memory 256 MB RAM <<BR>>
Storage 512 MB ROM <<BR>>

Qualcom radio, learned from discussion with Qualcom tech person.

Carriers Sprint, Virgin Mobile (US)
Compatible networks CDMA EVDO Rev. 0 (Sprint), CDMA EVDO Rev. A (Virgin Mobile)[1]

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-M910CAAVMU-features <<BR>>
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/mobile/mobile-phones/sprint-phones/SPH-M910ZKASPR/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail <<BR>>
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Intercept_id4620 <<BR>>
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-M910CAAVMU-features <<BR>>
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2649 <<BR>>

Samsung SPH-M910 Intercept Specs
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2383&c=samsung_sph-m910_intercept <<BR>>
Detailed Technical Specifications of Samsung SPH-M910 Intercept
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2383&view=1&c=samsung_sph-m910_intercept <<BR>>

Samsung S3C6410 RISC Microprocessor
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a6410&c=samsung_s3c6410 <<BR>>
devices based on S3C6410
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdamaster&posted=1&cpu=a6410 <<BR>>




http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a6410&c=samsung_s3c6410 <<BR>>
Samsung S3C6410 RISC Microprocessor
Simplified Technical Specifications

Type: S3C6410
Manufacturer: Samsung
Year Released: 2008
Predecessor: 32bit Samsung S3C6400
Characteristics
CPU Structure (complexity): RISC
Width of Machine Word: 32 bit
Primary (RAM) Data bus: 32 bit
Instruction Set
Supported Instruction Set(s): ARMv6
CPU Core: ARM1176JZF-S
Clock Frequencies
Recommanded Minimum Clock Frequency: 533 MHz
Recommanded Maximum Clock Frequency: 800 MHz
Caches
Level 1 cache: 16KiB data cache / 16 KiB instruction cache
Technology
Semiconductor Technology: CMOS
Minimum Feature Size: 65 nm
Contacts: 424 pins
Supply Voltage: 1.1 V
Additional Details
Special Features: 16/16KB I/D TCM, 2D/3D Graphics Acceleration (OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0), ARM TrustZone, AHB/AXI bus, 32 channel DMA controller, Instruction and Data Memory Management Units, 32KB secure boot ROM <<BR>>
Related Page: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=229&partnum=S3C6410 <<BR>>
Datasheet Time: Feb 13, 08 18:44:05 <<BR>>


Purchase: <<BR>>
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/?sort=priceasc&catAbb=mob&query=Intercept <<BR>>
http://cell-phones.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=Intercept&_sacat=9355&_dmpt=Cell_Phones <<BR>>



Similar to Samsung Moment SPH-M900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Moment <<BR>>

Samsung SPH-M900 Moment Specs
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2063&c=samsung_sph-m900_moment <<BR>>

Detailed Technical Specifications of Samsung SPH-M900 Moment
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2063&view=1&c=samsung_sph-m900_moment <<BR>>


http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/Samsung_Phone <<BR>>
Samsung Galaxy S 4G Repair Manual
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4G <<BR>>
Samsung Galaxy S 4G Teardown
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-S-4G-Teardown/4977/1 <<BR>>
Nexus S Repair Manual
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Nexus_S <<BR>>
Nexus S Teardown
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1 <<BR>>




== Windows ==
 HTC

=== OLD_Hardware_OLD ===

  * [[DebianOnNeo1973|Openmoko Neo1973 (GTA01)]]
  * [[DebianOnFreeRunner|Openmoko FreeRunner (GTA02)]]
  * [[DebianOnGTA04|"Openmoko" GTA04]] is running on Debian rootfs as well [[http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/|[1]]]
  * [[http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian|Nokia N800/N810]]
  * [[pkg-n900|Nokia N900]]
  * [[Mobile/Nokia_N9|Nokia N9/N950]]
  * [[http://www.android-devs.com/?p=152&cpage=1#comment-25|HTC Nexus1]]
  * Motorola: ?

=== OLD_Projects_OLD ===

Many of the smartphone tasks are handled by the Free``Smartphone.Org (FSO) team:

  * http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO

Openmoko's FreeRunner is so far the device best supported:
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Nokia's maemo is based on debian :
Nokia's Maemo is based on Debian:
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Same as mer the community based fork :

   * http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer

Upcoming distro MeeGo may be open to accept debian (re)built packages too :

  * http://wiki.meego.com/Proposal_for_a_Debian_Packaging_working_group

Also there is an ugly alternative to install debian is to run it in a chroot dir :

  * http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

Misc :
Also there is an ugly alternative to install Debian is to run it in a chroot dir:

  * (instructions there are probably for Nokia n900, where as for Nokia n800 under OS2008, one may prefer : http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/easy-deb-chroot/)
  * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1413313 (on HTC Nexus)



=== OLD_Misc_OLD ===
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  * http://htc-linux.org/models.php
  * https://garage.maemo.org/projects/moebian
  * http://rzr.online.fr/q/mobile
  * http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=961128#post961128

Debian on Smartphones/Tablets

Please add some valuable information to help this project move forward. :)

This page is about tracking every initiative to fully or partially install the system on mobile platforms:

About

Debian is the universal operating system. Thus, it needs to run on smartphone/tablet hardware. This wiki page is a tool to help bring Debian to mobile platforms.

It would be great if Debian could run on many kinds of smartphone hardware: iPhones, Android capable HW, Windows Mobile HW, etc.

The software should allow dual booting, into both Debian and any software that came with the hardware.

Debian on smartphones should have GUI capabilities, appropriate to the hardware capabilities.

It would also be great if Debian could run applications written to be native to the original OS for the hardware. This will enable Debian to serve the many people in society who want to easily use those applications.

Debian might benefit from having its own User Interface, or UIs, based on progression from the desktop Debian UIs - ex, GNOME or KDE. It would be great if the GNOME, KDE and other GUI communities could come to agreement on a common UI for Debian, to save unnecessary duplication of development effort, both of the Debian UI, and application software for Debian. Also to save the users from having to learn unnecessary extra UIs.

Origin and Purpose

To get this wiki page started, see the original message I sent suggesting this project. It includes some reference URLs, to help seed thinking on Debian on smartphones development.

Contributions

Many people made useful replies to that email, and it would be great if they would add their suggestions of software components, foundations, and URLs thereof to this page. If we all take a few minutes to make contributions to this page when we have something valuable to add, this page will grow to be a great resource for us all. So, please take a moment to add something valuable to this page right now, or when you have the opportunity. :)

This page could use contributions like: Links to component software (embeded debian, GRUB, UIs, etc).

Software developers can write software for the many parts of this system and put links on this page to those components.

Writers can produce articles about Debian on smartphones in emails to the relevant Debian mailing lists, blogs, web pages and for the general media.

Artists can create the graphics and multimedia for Debian on smartphones.

Packagers can put it all together so people can download and install it on their smartphones.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for thinking. Thanks for all contributions you make. Let's all work together to enable Debian to fulfil its promise as "The Universal Operating System". :)

Contact

To chat about Debian on mobile devices, please join the #debian-mobile IRC channel on irc.debian.org.

other discussions will be appropriate to have on the following lists instead:

People

Here are some people interested in running Debian on smartphones.

Name

IRC nick

Hardware owned

Willing to

Wishlist

Paul Wise

pabs

OpenMoko FreeRunner

Offer advice

Linux mainline support for the FR, QtMoko in Debian

Didier Raboud

OdyX

OpenMoko FreeRunner

Get paid to work towards Debian on Mobile devices :-p

Sicelo Mhlongo

Sicelo

Nokia N900

Help with testing

Working Debian on N900 with UMTS/GPRS access

?Alishams Hassam

Zeroedout

OpenMoko FreeRunner, Google Nexus One

Help maintain wiki, file bugs, test new things

Mainline FR support, QtMoko in Debian, Debian on the Nexus One, SHR on a Debian base

Howto

General

Learn software development.

Port low-level stuff to a device.

Package some middleware.

Package a user experience.

Package applications that can deal with small screens and touch input.

Build images for users to flash onto the device.

Get hardware to developers.

Learning

At various stages you will need to learn some of the following. This can be done at the same time as working on Debian for smartphones.

  • Languages:
    • ARM assembly: Linux, bootloaders
    • C: Linux, bootloaders, UIs
    • make: build systems
    • Python: middleware, applications
    • Vala: middleware, applications
  • Tools:
    • Version control:
      • git: Linux, middleware, applications
      • svn: UI, applications
      • bzr: applications
    • Compilers: GCC, LLVM, GCC cross-compilers
    • Build systems:
      • make: almost everything
      • autotools: middleware, UI, applications
      • cmake: some things
      • other: Linux and bootloaders might have custom build systems based on make

Porting

Pick a specific device. Get support for it into a bootloader (u-boot/etc), mainline Linux. Ask relevant teams to build linux/bootloader packages that work on your device. Port the debian installer to the device.

This is most of the work. It is important to get your changes into Linux/u-boot mainline otherwise Debian will not be able to support your device since the Linux kernel team for Debian will not add non-mainline drivers/patches to Debian kernels and therefore you won't be able to support Debian on the phone you care about. It will be made easier since the Android drivers probably already exist and can be ported to mainline Linux. Some hardware vendors will be violating the GPL and not releasing drivers/patches. You might be able to get the code by contacting them or getting the SFLC or gplviolations.org involved.

Middleware

Pick some middleware, join the packaging group for it or package it for Debian and look for some sponsors.

Existing middleware includes FSO (in Debian), oFono (in Debian), pyNeo, Android/MeeGo/Maemo.

UI

Pick a UI or create a new one, create a team, start packaging it for Debian and look for sponsors.

There are numerous existing FLOSS UXen for smartphones and similar devices. As the universal OS, Debian should aim to support several of these.

Applications

Start an index of touch-screen friendly apps and package some of them. Most of them will be ?OpenMoko ones since that was the first free software friendly phone. So read their wiki and related sites a lot.

Images

Talk to the Debian installer, live and CDs teams about building daily, weekly and release images that people can flash onto their phones. This could significantly change the way Debian images are built so it will require a fair bit of discussion first.

Other tips

If you can get hardware into the hands of kernel developers that would help a lot. You might find some hardware manufacturers who are willing to give out some free samples to developers.

Software Layers

Bootloader

GRUB u-boot ?OpeniBoot

Kernel

  • Bluetooth
    Cell Phone Network - Phone
    Cell Phone Detwork - Data
    Wifi
    USB

UI

Applications

  • Phone
    Internet tethering

Running original OSs:

  • Android Blackberry iPhone Nokia Palm Windows

Other Native Linux non-Android Ports to Android Phones:

Native Ubuntu on Nexus S

Apparently, Ubuntu can run natively on a Nexus S. Maybe we can learn from this effort and port debian natively to multiple devices:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10486278

HTC Linux

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

HTC Dream ( The T-Mobile G1 Phone )

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dream

HTC Linux Device List

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devices

Processor Technologies

ARM

http://arm.com/

Samsung

Cell Phone Companies

  • ATT

Sprint/VirginMobil

http://www.virgin.com/gateways/mobile/

  • TMobile Verizon

Hardware & Smartphone Manufacturers product models/names

Android

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod

Android ROM developers http://forum.xda-developers.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_operating_system

Blackberry

Huawei

HTC

iPhone

LG

Motorola

Motorola Droid

Report of booting to a native copy of debian:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086302

Nokia

Nokia N9: Hardware adaptation and other pointers at Nokia N9 wiki page.

Nokia N900: See pkg-n900 wiki page.

Nokia N800/N810

Openmoko

Palm

Samsung

Samsung ROMs http://forum.sdx-developers.com/

Intercept

Wikipedia Samsung M910 Intercept

CPU Samsung ?S3C6410 at 800 MHz
Memory 256 MB RAM
Storage 512 MB ROM

Qualcom radio, learned from discussion with Qualcom tech person.

Carriers Sprint, Virgin Mobile (US) Compatible networks CDMA EVDO Rev. 0 (Sprint), CDMA EVDO Rev. A (Virgin Mobile)[1]

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-M910CAAVMU-features
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/mobile/mobile-phones/sprint-phones/SPH-M910ZKASPR/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Intercept_id4620
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-M910CAAVMU-features
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=2649

Samsung SPH-M910 Intercept Specs http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2383&c=samsung_sph-m910_intercept
Detailed Technical Specifications of Samsung SPH-M910 Intercept http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2383&view=1&c=samsung_sph-m910_intercept

Samsung ?S3C6410 RISC Microprocessor http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a6410&c=samsung_s3c6410
devices based on ?S3C6410 http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdamaster&posted=1&cpu=a6410

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a6410&c=samsung_s3c6410
Samsung ?S3C6410 RISC Microprocessor Simplified Technical Specifications

Type: ?S3C6410 Manufacturer: Samsung Year Released: 2008 Predecessor: 32bit Samsung ?S3C6400 Characteristics CPU Structure (complexity): RISC Width of Machine Word: 32 bit Primary (RAM) Data bus: 32 bit Instruction Set Supported Instruction Set(s): ARMv6 CPU Core: ARM1176JZF-S Clock Frequencies Recommanded Minimum Clock Frequency: 533 MHz Recommanded Maximum Clock Frequency: 800 MHz Caches Level 1 cache: 16KiB data cache / 16 KiB instruction cache Technology Semiconductor Technology: CMOS Minimum Feature Size: 65 nm Contacts: 424 pins Supply Voltage: 1.1 V Additional Details Special Features: 16/16KB I/D TCM, 2D/3D Graphics Acceleration (OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0), ARM ?TrustZone, AHB/AXI bus, 32 channel DMA controller, Instruction and Data Memory Management Units, 32KB secure boot ROM
Related Page: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=229&partnum=S3C6410
Datasheet Time: Feb 13, 08 18:44:05

Purchase:
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Similar to Samsung Moment SPH-M900 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Moment

Samsung SPH-M900 Moment Specs http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2063&c=samsung_sph-m900_moment

Detailed Technical Specifications of Samsung SPH-M900 Moment http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2063&view=1&c=samsung_sph-m900_moment

http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/Samsung_Phone
Samsung Galaxy S 4G Repair Manual http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4G
Samsung Galaxy S 4G Teardown http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-S-4G-Teardown/4977/1
Nexus S Repair Manual http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Nexus_S
Nexus S Teardown http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1

Windows

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Many of the smartphone tasks are handled by the FreeSmartphone.Org (FSO) team:

Openmoko's FreeRunner is so far the device best supported:

Nokia's Maemo is based on Debian:

Also there is an ugly alternative to install Debian is to run it in a chroot dir:

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