Trolltech made waves at LinuxWorld earlier this week
showing off a smart green phone that was being made available to developers, and is powered by Qtopia Phone Edition. But Mike Kelley, senior vice president of engineering at PalmSource, has
pointed out that Linux phones may not be as hackable as we want them to be; compile a buggy kernel for your cell phone and you might end-up bringing down the communication infrastructure:
“Phones are not PCs. They tie in to a radio that is regulated,” Kelley said at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. “They are tied into very expensive back-end infrastructure that can be seriously disrupted by malfunctioning phones.
