Red Bend offers Linux Cell Phones

Red Bend Software has introduced a Linux-based mobile phone that can be customized and updated with software and applications over-the-air.

Mast is based on Trolltech's Qtopia application Linux platform and is implemented on Trolltech's Qtopia Greenphone, according to Red Bend. Red Bend partnered with several companies, including Digital Airways, Opera Software, Synchronica, Trolltech and Zi to create the necessary components for the phone, called Mast.

Red Bend is supplying its vRapid Mobile platform for updating, adding, and removing individual embedded software components.