Hackable:1 implements the GNOME mobile platform. GTK+ is a mature and well documented platform with thousands of developers and support from many sides: Ubuntu, Moblin (Intel), LiMo (many major hardware manufacturers and many major operators), Maemo (Nokia). Using GNOME mobile means an easy path into the future and many more hackable devices to come...

GTK+ has many language bindings to choose from and full international support including bidi input and output (bidirectional language support) -- you need arabic right to left input? No problem.

The GNOME platform uses the Evolution Data Server backend which has been developed and tested over years and offers a D-Bus interface, just like frameworkd intends to do in the future. However it is already in widespread use, well tested, mature and comes with an extended documentation.