There have been recent discussions about the proposed Gphone(linux based open source wireless platform), which is slated to be java based. Kind of leaves Perl out.

I stumbled across this linux devices news article .

Since Perl/Qt support is essentially non-existant, it is great news that Motorola has picked the truely free open-source Gtk2 as it's platform( plus Gtk2 has great Perl porting of the libs). So hope is alive that we may one day be able to write Perl/Gtk2 wireless phone applications.

Although if you compare Motorola to Nokia at the present moment, it's like David vs. Goliath, but real widespread use and innovation tends to come from inexpensive cheap platforms, since they are more accessible to the hoards of poor programmers now populating the world..... poor monks like me!!! :-)