The DigiTimes has published an image gallery of wildly feature-full mobile phones shown off at CeBIT last week. The gallery includes a Linux-based device from Samsung that supports UWB (ultra-wide-band), an Intel-driven standard for high-speed transfer of multimedia content between devices in the home or office.

The new Samsung phone — identified in the DigiTimes story as the “Samsung Qtopia,” appears to be based on the same hardware platform as Samsung's PDA-like SCH-i519 (compare pictures of the Qtopia and the SCH-i519 phones). However, the name suggests the new phone runs Qtopia Phone Edition, an off-the-shelf Linux application environment for mobile phones that shipped in May, 2004. The earlier SCH-i519 was based on a 3G mobile application stack from Korean Linux provider Mizi Research.

In addition to substituting Trolltech's Qtopia for Mizi's application environment, the new Samsung phone supports UWB networking, according to the DigiTimes story.

The DigiTimes gallery of fancy phones is here. More details about Samsung's SCH-i519 are available in our detailed device profile, here.

 
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