Open Source Dream Phone

[AusIV]

I'm an Ubuntu user, and I've been waiting for a phone that would integrate well with my computer. Windows users have Windows Mobile that handles their documents (and whatever else windows mobile does). Mac users have the iPhone with a slick web browser and a number of other friendly features.

I'd like to see a set of applications for Android that interacted well with Ubuntu applications.

The real web browser already exists, which I think is great. I haven't found extensive information on the hardware that will be available with Android or the abstraction layers, but I hope it will be able to use 802.11 channels, because I don't intend to pay the premiums for GPRS or Edge.

I'd like to see an Open Document editor, or at least viewer. Even better if it could be a full, OpenOffice (or Google Docs) implementation with support for MS Office documents.

I'd also like a Tomboy implementation. I take lots of notes using Tomboy, ranging from course notes, to outlines for software projects, to grocery lists. I'd like to be able to take quick notes on my phone and synchronize them with my computer. Likewise, if I take notes on my computer, I may want them on my phone later.

My next note is an Amarok style music player. I like the way Amarok handles playlists, lets you queue up tracks to be played in the order you want them, let's you switch playlists without stopping the current song, let's you say "Stop after this song" instead of trying to be alert when a song is coming to the end. I also like the Amarok scoring system. I think this should translate reasonably easily, since both Android and Amarok can use SQLite 3 as a database backend. My only hope is that Android will support Ogg Vorbis, which at the moment it doesn't look like it does.

I'd also like to see an instant messenger done using libpurple or something similar that would let users IM on a whole host of instant messaging services.

Those are the applications I'm looking for. I am a CS student, and would be happy to contribute to those projects to the best of my ability. I'd become quite cynical about the feature set that was available on phones, and I think Android might make my dream phone a possibility.

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That sound good, but you need pay much for this phone's hardware...