I'd also like to mention that my company is in the final stages of product
design for a mobile digital multimedia platform based on NetBSD, X11 and
GTK+.  I am developing two families of devices based on the MIPS32 and ARM11
architectures.

While it is still premature to talk much about a yet to be released product,
you can rest assured that there are people who recognize the value of NetBSD
and the NetBSD community.

Best Regards,

Charles L. Nelson
President & Chief Technologist
Embedded System Architects
(360) 779-6852
www.embsyspro.com
www.dmxs.org

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry E. Metzger [mailto:perry@piermont.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:30 AM
> To: Alexander Bubnov
> Cc: NetBSD/users
> Subject: Re: can be NetBSD run on some smart phone or something like
> that?
>
>
>
> "Alexander Bubnov" <alexander.bubnov@gmail.com> writes:
> > I would like to buy a mobile. It would be great if it is possible to run
> > NetBSD there!
> > I do not know  name platforms which are used for mobiles/smart
> phones where
> > it is possible to run NBSD.
> > If anyone tries to install NetBSD on such platforms please let
> me know its
> > name.
> >
> > I would like also to save functionality this mobile/smart phone
> installing
> > NetBSD there.
>
> I am unaware of an existing smart phone that runs NetBSD. However, the
> folks at FIC are building a GSM phone (the Neo1973) in conjunction
> with the OpenMoko project (which they launched) to build a fully open
> Linux smartphone, where "fully open" means no binary blobs, all
> specifications available to third parties, etc.
>
> In theory, a sufficiently motivated team of NetBSD people could make
> the phone run NetBSD instead of Linux once it is complete because
> nothing will be hidden. In practice, however, I doubt that this will
> be happening, but you never know, someone might get very motivated...
>
> Perry
>
>