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."

Comments

I've tried it

[Anonymous Coward]

But the person on the other end always sounds like they're speaking Chinese.

SMP cell phone?

[MadDog Bob-2]

I can see the ad campaign now...

Like that stupid Cheerios ad except instead of some middle-aged sad sack saying "I lowered my cholesterol," it would be a bunch of hopeless geeks running around muttering "cat /proc/cpuinfo".

I know I would :)

Re:The new smart phone

[Hillman]

I hear US version will automatically phone police when you text "Terrorist", "Civil desobiediance", "recount", "death penality", "fair trial for poor black people in the south".

Isn't technology great?

Confusing

[Capt'n Hector]

Ya know, people are going to become REALLY confused when phone processor speeds reach 900 and 1800 mhz.