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You got that right. You can officially put Linux on the iPhone. Now I am not suggesting that the current Mac OS on iPhone is any bad, and I love my iPhone the way it is. However, it is always encouraging to see possibilities available for a device such as the iPhone.

The good folks at Gizmodo have an interesting theory about Google putting Android on iPhone, which is more than possible if you can already put Linux on the iPhone. I personally don’t consider Android a threat to the Mac Mobile OS right now, and I am sure Apple is alert about the possible future threat from Android. But what I am more interested about is to see if Apple will pull a Microsoft on us by limiting or banning Android to be put on the iPhone.

What’s your take?

Amazon’s customer vote promotion is back again, and there are some amazing deals available for a limited time. Now these deals are given to folks randomly which means you may not get lucky after all. But it’s surprising that Eee and Flip are included in the voting process, and iPod touch isn’t. I guess you still have a lot to be thankful for if you win the PS3 deals, but I would have liked to see iPod touch included in the voting process. It would’ve been a no-brainer.

You decide: Should iPod Touch be offered through Amazon Customer Vote? How about the iPhone itself (knowing that it won’t be on Amazon anytime soon).

One thing that success bring around the world is lawsuit. We all saw what happened with YouTube when they got bought by Google. Apple has had way more success than any other company in recent years, and even the bad economy has not been able to significantly stop Apple from reaching its goals quarter after quarter. But one thing that you can’t avoid in this country is lawsuits.

Elliot Gottfurcht is the latest individual suing Apple for stealing his idea. He is claiming that he has invented Safari before Apple. OK. Maybe not that. But Elliot is claiming that he came up with the idea to show web content on Mobile phones using XML. He has a patent for it too! Here is thinking that Elliot the inventor will be paid a decent amount of money to go away, but I guess that’s what he is after anyway.

We reported a while back that Beginning iPhone Development was in the works. There are a couple of other iPhone development books out there, but what I like about this book is that you won’t feel lost if you are not an expert with object-C. You also learn to work with Quartz, OpenGL, and everything you need to get started with iPhone development. Here is the summary:

Summary of Contents

1. Welcome to the Jungle
2. Appeasing the Tiki Gods
3. Handling Basic Interaction
4. More User Interface Fun
5. Autorotation and Autosizing
6. Multiview Applications
7. Tab Bars and Pickers
8. Introduction to Table Views
9. Navigation Controllers and Table Views
10. Application Settings and User Defaults
11. Basic Data Persistence
12. Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL
13. Taps, Touches, and Gestures
14. Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location
15. Whee!
16. iPhone Camera and Photo Library
17. Application Localization
18. Where to Next?

Excellent book for junior iPhone developers.

Believe it or not, we have yet another story about a device that wants to beat iPhone in its own game. BlackBerry storm is the latest device to have the title of iPhone killer. Now, let’s not pretend that iPhone has won the business sector over yet, but it is making inroads. Having said that, I was pretty impressed with BlackBerry storm. Admittedly, I don’t own the device yet (waiting to get it for the Christmas), and I probably won’t have a need for it anyway, but the specs that I have been looked at seem to indicate that Storm is a great little business tool.

The reviews have been rave too. Blackverry’s are notoriously loved by business folks, but the new generation of business gurus are moving on to the iPhone because it has some very unique features and it does make you look smarter. Is Storm better than the iPhone? I am not sure. It’s different, and it has some nice features. But better? I think that’s just pushing it.