Linux Mobile (Cellular) Phone Survey: Apple

Linux compatibility, synchronization and configuration guides for mobile (cellular) phones made by Apple Computer Inc. iPhone. The general resources section at the bottom, contains links to helpful Linux utilities (mostly available under GPL), community efforts, HOWTOs and FAQs. Do you have written a report yourself? Please submit a new entry.

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Applications, Ports, Drivers

iphone-dev

The goal of the iphone-dev project is to create a free, portable, high quality toolchain to enable development for the Apple iPhone and other embedded devices based on the ARM/Darwin platform.

iphone-linux

The goals of the iPhone-Linux project are to port the full 2.6.x Linux operating system to the Apple iPhone, to create a system whereby users can easily use Linux on their iPhone, and to facilitate interoperability between Linux and Darwin/ARM.

iPhoneTools

iPhoneTools is a collection of simple tools to make development/hacking on the iPhone a little bit easier.

HOWTOs

Sync an iPhone with Amarok

The following guide allows you to wirelessly sync an iPhone with Amarok in Ubuntu 7.10, including: adding, editing and playing songs to the iPhone; creating and copying playlists to the iPhone; copy songs from iPhone to the Amarok library.

How to run SAMBA on your iPhone

This document is a step buy step on howto install and configure SAMBA on your iPhone . Following these step will allow you to connect to iphone from windows or mac as a network share. This connection direct to iphone via adhoc network. But if you want to route it behind a firewall will work fine as well.

Resources

• back to Linux mobile phone survey
• manufacturer site: Apple Computer Inc.
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• JAVA Applications for (Linux) PDAs and cell phones
• Debian Packages for mobile phones
• Linux and Cell Phones - Connectivity (IrDA, BlueTooth, GSM, GPRS, ..)
• Linux applications for BlueTooth cell phones
• Linux SMS applications
• Miscellaneous Linux applications for mobile (cellular) phones.
• free logos for mobile (cell) phones - mostly GPLed
• free ringtones for mobile (cell) phones - mostly GPLed
• free themes for mobile (cell) phones and PDAs - mostly GPLed
• do-it-yourself Apple mobile (cell) phone repairing, upgrading and modding
• conversion and migration of data for mobile (cell) phones (contacts, calendars, addresses, ...)
• conversion and migration of vCards
• FCC ID: unknown