Other Linux Phones
From OpenEZX
This page collects information about non-Motorola Linux-based mobile phones. This is useful as many parts of OpenEZX are probably usable for other phones, too (and vice versa).
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LiMo Foundation
The LiMo Foundation is an industry committee tasked with creating a Linux-based mobile OS and application stack with a unified API. Its members include Motorola, Vodafone, LG, Samsung, and Nokia (through Trolltech). The beta API was released Feb 2008 to members, and is due for public release H2/2008 with the first phones Q4/2008. The following LiMo-based phones were announced Feb 2008 at Mobile World Congress in Spain.
| Manufacturer | Models |
|---|---|
| Motorola | MOTO U9, MOTO Z6w, ROKR Z6, RAZR2 V8, RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition, ROKR E8 |
| NEC (for NTT DoCoMo) | FOMA N905i, FOMA N905iμ, FOMA N705i, FOMA N705iμ |
| Panasonic (for NTT DoCoMo) | FOMA P905i, FOMA P905iTV, FOMA P705i, FOMA P705iμ |
| Samsung | SGH-i800 |
| LG | Unnamed LiMo Prototype |
| Aplix | OPAL (Hardware Reference Handset) |
| Purple Labs | Purple Magic (sub $100 3G handset) |
As of March 6, 2008, API documentation has been made public in PDF form
Non-Motorola Linux Phones
- ImCoSys Smartphone TI OMAP 730-Prozessor 200 MHz, Quadband-GSM, GPRS, Bluetooth 1.2, WLAN IEEE 802.11b, USB, RS232, 64MB Flash, 64MB RAM - but where are the sources?
(announced for June 2006) (The company reports on their webpage that the OS is an Embedded Linux. I noticed on a reseller page that it is not covered by the GPL. I sent an email to the company and it answered that in fact the phone does not base on Linux. Looks like a GPL violation or a confusion between the marketing and the development guys. I contact them again and will update the entry after the next answer. ... After more than two weeks the company does not react. So there are only two possibilities. First if their answer was correct then they misuse the name Linux to promote their phone or second they violate the GPL. The website still notice that it is a Linux inside.)
- Grundig Dreamphone G500i B700 U900 developed by Purple Labs (did they release source code yet?)
- Neuf Twin, based on QTopia-powered Wistron NeWeb GW1/GW3
- Neuf Twin Tact, based on E28 E2831 (there is a project called OpenTwin, that works on the Twin Phones).
- ROAD GmbH three versions: S101, S101K, L101 / GSM with EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, IRDA, USB 2.0, SD-Card, kernel 2.6
- OpenMoko Neo1973
- Trolltech Greenphone no longer being sold - they recommend the OpenMoko Neo1973 as development platform.
- E28 Holdings Limited is an ODM that makes inexpensive (US$300 MSRP) Linux-based dual-mode GSM/WiFi handsets. They have offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Chicago. At least E2831s´ "SmarCore" GUI is a proprietary one, the linux kernel seems to be a MontaVista one (No GPL code release?)
- i-Mobile has released a linux-based touch-screen smartphone called the 904. iMobile is a Thai carrier brand of ODM company Samart.
Linux Mobile Phone OS Vendors
- Mizi Research Incorporated in Korea makes a Linux OS phone solution called PRISM which is used by Samsung. Their public FTP site contains GPL sources, SDK, and Emulator.
- MontaVista Software is author of MobiLinux, used by NEC, Panasonic, and is the base for Motorola's EZX platform. (Do they maintain a repository for GPL compliance, or do the submit back to the main GPL projects?)
