Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:

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> My twelve years old cell phone needs to get replaced,
> most probably with one of these newer smartphones.
> 
> Beside other things, I want it to be as "open" as possible:
> a freely-available OS, a class-compliant USB storage, a documented

The most open smartphone I'm aware of is the Nokia N900.

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> wifi hardware, etc. So, in this regard: has someone managed
> to install obsd on some of these newer phones?

No.  Also, compare the user interface and applications useful on a
phone with what's available for OpenBSD.

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> I understand that most of these have an OS that is basically
> a modified linux;

Android and Maemo are Linux-based.  Symbian, iOS, Bada, Blackberry
and Windows Mobile are not.

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> does anyone know about a varinat that would have an OS based on BSD?

Apple's iOS is the most BSD-ish.  But that is utterly closed, and
the iPhone is dongled to the proprietary iTunes program (Mac OS,
MS Windows).

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de