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Mobile Phone with PC running Linux 2.6

Posted by timothy on from the good-for-the-ski-lift dept.

A8 writes "There is a new toy (aka the S101) around the corner from a German company called Road GmbH. Looks like the Nokia Communicator, but is a little PC with GSM, GPRS, IrDA, Bluetooth, WLAN -- you name it, running Linux 2.6/Qtopia! Sorry seems like the page is in German only." There are also versions based on the same hardware but running Windows CE and Symbian.

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  1. For those of us... by freralqqvba · · Score: 5, Informative

    who speak english.

  2. ROAD runner? by KontinMonet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looks to me like vapourware. Hardly any info, pictures tooled up with Photoshop (or whatever). No address or phone number, just a one address email. Is it a 'skam' (as we might say auf Deutsch)?

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    Did he inhale?
  3. english translation [google] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    S101/S101K
    Technical features
    Software
    - standard applications
    - GSM telephone with SMS/MMS
    - PIM also
    * Directory
    * Appointment calendar
    * Tasks
    - pocket calculators
    - dictating machine
    - indication program
    - MP3 Player
    - PC synchronisation Ms Outlook
    - remote ACCESS
    - InterNet Browser
    - email client (POP and IMAP), repeated accounts
    - Office Viewer (Ms Word, Ms Excel, Adobe pdf)

    [Customized applications]
    - cryptology (only S101K)
    - Business applications for direct access to firm servers
    - Providerspezifi on-line services

    [Operating system]
    - LINUX Kernel 2.6.x
    - Qtopia Graphic user interface

    [Hardware]
    - GSM telephone
    * Display: LCD mono chrome 102x65 pixel
    * Keyboard: 20 keys standard layout
    * Acoustic output over earphones or free speech mechanism
    - PC
    * Display: Color TFT 640x240 pixel with Touchscreen
    * Keyboard: 63 keys PC-compatible layout
    - Diktiergeraet/Audioplayer
    * 4 separate keys for control
    * Rendition over loudspeakers/earphones
    - camera (optional)
    * 2 megapixels

    Actual working time
    - GSM telephone: actively 4h, standby 240h
    - PC: actively 5h, standby 30 days (GSM telephone switched off)

    Konnektivitaet
    - wireless: GSM quadband (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz) with EDGE
    * WLAN
    * Bluetooth
    * IRDA infrared modules
    - wire-bound
    * USB 2,0, mini USB socket
    * SD Card base
    * Power supply unit 5V DC, RK 1A
    * Telephone Headset or stereo earphone

    [Interior life]
    - CCU Intel Xscale PXA 263 with 400 MHz
    - memory 64MB RAM, 64MB Flash
    - Akku lithium polymer 1500mAh, load time 3h
    - vibration alarm

    [General data]
    - weight 210g inclusive Akku
    - dimensions 128x60x25m

  4. Ah memories... by goofyheadedpunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone else remember the simpler days, when phones where just phones? When you didn't have to bother with your friends sending you pictures over their $400 internet phone camera thingies? When you didn't have to interupt a kernel compile just to check your voice mail?

    I do. Good times.

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