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Re:Ask HN: What's the best phone to write an app for for Lin... by m0nastic on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:29PM (#1925907)
I'm a little surprised no one mentioned WebOS; the phone runs Linux and the PDK is in C (although as pointed out in the reply below, the PDK is only available on Windows and Mac right now).

I would also look at Meego (what Maemo became after it merged with Moblin), which you can code in C, C++, or Python (or really anything, although the native graphical interface is Qt).

The only issue with either of those is that you might be writing an app that no one will use (as one platform was still-born, and the second isn't yet born). That's the price you pay to avoid learning new technology though.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best phone to write an app for for Lin... by dillon on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:30PM (#1925913)
The PDK is only for Mac/Windows. http://goo.gl/MnyQf
Re:Ask HN: What's the best phone to write an app for for Lin... by m0nastic on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:35PM (#1925921)
Oops, I thought they had already shipped the Linux version of the PDK, but it looks like you're right.

Thanks.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best phone to write an app for for Lin... by freshrap6 on Sunday November 21, 2010 @09:10AM (#1927075)
There isn't an official build yet, but the developers at webos-internals have a build you can use.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/WebOS_Internals_PDK