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Wi-Fi Planet: Sony Mylo Built On Qtopia Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 24, 2006

“Sony introduced mylo, ‘my life online,’ a couple of weeks ago.
The new handheld is a Wi-Fi-based personal communicator that looks
vaguely like Sony’s Play Station Portable but is designed for
messaging instead of gaming.

“Unlike Sony’s other new mobile device, the VAIO UX Micro PC (a
full-fledged Windows computer) or its past mobile devices (the
Palm-based Clie series) Brighthand reports mylo is built on Linux.
Trolltech’s Qtopia platform to be exact…”

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Linux Powers Sony’s New Mylo WiFi Handheld
(Aug 11, 2006)

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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