[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“I shuddered with anticipation as I opened the Fedex package.
Ah, there it was–a little cellphone box like so many I’ve opened
before. Only this one was lime green and white. Inside, instead of
some chrome and gray phone of yesteryear where DIY means you get to
pick your own ringtone, I found a little bundle of metallic-green
coolness. The Trolltech greenphone.“The directions admonished me to let it charge for 24 hours
before I turned it on, so, like everyone else on the planet, I
pressed the power button right away to see it do its Linux-phone
thing and… nothing…”