China Launches Linux-Based Smartphone

An anonymous reader writes "This news item at LinuxDevices provides photos and specs of a new Linux-based smartphone being launched today in China. The device, called the E2800, sells for about $600, and targets business users, offering PDA functions, touch-screen, handwriting recognition, a camera, and memory expansion to 512MB through an SD memory card, the article says. The device's manufacturer is a Shanghai company named E28. The E2800 is a 900/1800MHz, GSM/GPRS class 10 device based on dual ARM9 processors, running embedded Linux with a 2.4-series kernel. Other recent Linux-based mobile phone announcements have been Japan's NTT DoCoMo's 3G phones and Motorola's A760."

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you make ME sick... ignorant dolt.

[gotr00t]

You are obviously associating the government with the people and making them one entity, which is a wrong assumption to begin with. For one, most Chinese people are not part of the government of the nation. The wrongdoings of the Chinese government can be debated, but they are not the fault of the Chinese people! There is nothing wrong about reporting about the accomplishments of a people in an objective way. I have never seen a Slashdot article than praises the controversial actions of the Chinese government, which is the entitiy that you have problems with.

So before you go troll around with your anti-China posts, know that he people and the goverment are two different things. Get that straight.

Moreover, Slashdot being enligtened or liberal is not up to you to determine. In a totally open public forum, you cannot possibly make intelligent generalizations about the people here. By doing so, you are merely being ignorant.

Re:The immorality of Open Source

[bckrispi]

I know IHBT, but I'll bite anyway...

The only thing different now is that the software is being acquired legally. Before, the Red Army would've just used their pirated Oracle 9 to keep tabs on Democratic Activists.