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Article: Portrait of a Linux smartphone

Aug 24, 2004 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 2 views

What does a Linux smartphone look like? While Windows Mobile Smartphones all tend to look alike, Linux gives developers the freedom to innovate — or imitate — as desired. E28's e2800+ (pictured here) has garnered awards for both innovation and ease-of-use.

The following screenshots from the E2800+'s extensive English-language user manual show a real, live, shipping Linux smartphone in action.

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The E28 e2800+ features a hardware buttons for camera and music control, as well as mouse-like buttons along the right side, including up, down, and okay buttons.


The idle screen shows signal strength, battery level, messages waiting, and other status indicators


The main menu screen shows large icons, including one that can link to the service provider's portal


The dialpad screen includes easy access to call logs, contacts, and photo dial


The contact manager supports categories and messaging clients support group addressing


The phone screen menu provides several dialing options, while the contact manager can display international names in a single merged list


Incoming calls are identified, whether a call is already established or not. Multiple calls can be taken separately, or conferenced


The call and network setup screens offer advanced options such as call diverting and number hiding


The message menu and email screen


A combined MMS/SMS message client supports group sends through the contact manager


The organizer includes a variety of standard PIMS functions, as well as a Chinese/English dictionary


The phone includes a voice recorder, and a memo writer that supports both text and drawing modes


The e2800+ includes basic and scientific calculators


The world clock and unit converter, which includes international currency conversion support


The music player can be activated by a hardware button, and includes a playlist that lists song title and duration


The e2800+ includes music composition software with voices that include piano, xylophone, saxophone, clarinet, and violin, among others


The Gallery includes access to the SD card, where longer videos can be stored


With a 512MB SD card, the e2800+ can capture and play back up to 10 hours of video. It also includes an image editor


The e2800+ includes both WAP and HTML browsers


 
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