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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Wouldn't it be colossally stupid by morelife · 2003-12-15 18:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

If someone said

"All your Linux 2.4 SCO SMP Code in your new telephone are belong to us."
China's censorship is not THAT bad... by Enoch+Root · 2003-12-15 19:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

I live there, and I can still read your dumb comments on Slashdot.