China Launches Linux-Based Smartphone

Posted by timothy on Monday December 15, 2003 @04:12PM from the could-it-play-oggs dept.

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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Re:Why is it that China launches cellphone, not E2 by taweili · 2003-12-15 18:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Yes, for Japan, it's Docomo launches a Java phone and for America, it is Motorola launches a Java phone. For the poor small Chinese company, launching the Java phone is just part of its patriotic duty to the massive communistic collective?!?

Give the Chinese company a name and a face!!! They are not a faceless commies collective!!!

The company is called E28 and the phone gets launched is E2800.