Linux for mobile phones is a good alternative to Windows Mobile, but it didn’t have success yet. The problem encountered by mobile manufacturers was integrating the software. That happened because some companies made Linux kernels, while others provided application development environments. So, the phone makers struggled to integrate the components and finally chose the convenient Windows Mobile.

Azingo, a software company, promises a complete suite of mobile Linux software and furthermore intends to help the producers to integrate the components I was telling you about. Azingo’s application offers Web widgets that can deliver information such as weather and traffic, entertainment applications and productivity software. It sounds very nice to me!

Currently there are no deals with phone manufacturers, but Azingo has announced that handsets using their software will be available in the fourth quarter.

via Yahoo News

Not sure if you can consider this a laptop, but I am telling you that’s exactly what it is. It went on sale on NewEgg yesterday and there are already unboxing and reviewing videos. To go a little bit off-topic, I am not a fan for the OLPC project mainly because they wanted to create a $100 laptop and ended up with $200 and probably above that, in the near future, but I think for $399 (or even lower because they may offer a discount for hundreds of thousands of laptops) the reviews are extremely good. Here is a video of unboxing and some more comments after the jump.

Now that we’ve seen it unboxed I guess you would be interested to know what it has inside? TweakTown did the dissection and it’s not gross at all. Here’s the gallery.

via MobileMag