Trolltech GreenPhone ships again

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greenphone.jpgSome weeks ago Trolltech postponed full scale shipping of its Greenphone because of some licensing issues in the open source software distributed with the Greenphone SDK. It looks like these issues are now resolved, and shipments have resumed.

The Greenphone now comes with updated QTopia platform (v 4.1.7), based on Linux kernel 2.4.19.

Other phone specifications:
-  QVGA®LCD color screen
-  Marvell® PXA270 312 MHz application processor
-  64MB RAM & 128MB Flash
-  Mini-SDâ„¢ card slot
-  Broadcom® BCM2121 GSM/GPRS baseband processor
-  Tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900) support
-  Bluetooth® equipped
-  Mini-USB port
-  1.3 megapixel camera

The phone is not really intended for end user and has a quite high price tag due to its confidential distribution (695 US$ with the community SDK, 800 US$ with the light commercial SDK) but is the first real device based on Linux for mobile developer in Europe (not taking into account the Nokia 770 tablet which is not a phone but a Wifi enabled PDA and based on a different GUI platform).

More information can be found on Trolltech web site and expect a review on NewLC has we just bought one...

News posted December 28th, 2006 by eric