Bug Labs to offer build-your-own Android kit

Things may be looking up for those anxious early adopters who are desperate to get their hands on a real live Android phone.

Bug Labs have announced that their upcoming modular gadget kit will supoort Google’s new mobile OS, allowing anyone with just a little too much time on their hands to start developing Android apps.

Bug modules are an “open source, web-enabled, modular software and hardware platform”. What this means in practice is a collection of self-contained gadgets like touch screens, accelerometers and GPS receivers that snap onto a base unit and can be programmed using Java to create completely new gadgets. They are somewhere between incredibly cool and irredeemably geeky.

There is no mobile phone module as yet (i.e. nothing you could plug a SIM card into) but the devices can use wifi for internet access so knocking up a VoIP device should be relatively simple.Could 2008 see the first homebrew gPhone?
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