Nutshell: Nokia cellular now supports open source development on their embedded platform.

With my last cell phone purchase, the LG VX8100, I was buying something good.

In the end, I realized I had missed out on something greater….Linux+embedded devices in short (Nokia) for cell phones.

The main gripe with my cell was Verizon was restricting my usage of the built in mp3 player, and not letting me type in a url myself on the browser it uses.

Hey, I bought it….I have to now wait until whenever you’re ready to sell me mp3’s in order to use it?

Now they are selling mp3’s I assume, so I can now go into the store (not the millions of booths). You need to go to a booth to find where the f–k a “store” is so they can unlock it for you. (Or join a cell hacking forum and do it yourself).

The point here is because of the nature of open source, I can do whatever I want to my cell phones, write apps, fixes, etc for the software on it, and release it if I want (see open sources licenses).

The web site about Nokia’s involvment in open source can be found at: opensource.nokia.com

Another beautiful nokia provides is free unlocking of your cell phone so you don’t have to buy a new one when you find a better deal with Foo Telecom Provider. To unlock it, google. You can do it by the phone serial number identifier (there is an online tool to do it, and you j ust punch in the code it returns - very simple).

Read my other articles about cell phone unlocking to find the link.