Greenphone
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| Manufacturer | Yahua Teltech for Trolltech |
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| Type | Smartphone |
| Connectivity | GSM Bluetooth GPRS USB 1.1 2.5-mm audio jack |
| Retail availability | September 2006 – October 2007 |
| Media | miniSD |
| Operating system | Qtopia Phone Edition (Linux-based) |
| Input | Touchscreen, buttons |
| Power | Battery |
| CPU | Intel XScale @ 312MHz |
| Memory | 64 MB SDRAM 128 MB NAND Flash |
| Display | 240×320 QVGA TFT |
| Dimensions | 106.5 × 49.0 × 15.6 (mm) |
The Greenphone was a smartphone developed by Trolltech that uses Qtopia Phone Edition, an OS comprising mostly free and open source software.
The proprietary software on the phone includes the communications stack and the package manager.[1] However, Trolltech has put these components under GPL for the next version of Qtopia, 4.3, snapshots of which are already freely available. Thus, it is now possible to run the Greenphone without any proprietary components by updating its software to Qtopia 4.3.
On October 22, 2007, Trolltech announced that it has sold all its inventory of Greenphones and will no longer continue production, having achieved the goal of promoting the Qtopia platform and gaining interest from developers. Focus will instead be shifted to development on the Neo FreeRunner phone. Trolltech intends to continue supporting the Qtopia Greenphone community[2], and alternative hardware, such as the Neo1973.
[edit] See also
- Qtopia
- FIC Neo1973 a smartphone, being developed in conjunction with OpenMoko
- OpenMoko, which can also run Qtopia
- Android mobile phone platform, developed by Google
[edit] External links
- Qtopia Greenphone
- Greenphone wiki
- Linux devices article on the Greenphone
- Greenphone developer tutorials
- Getting Started with the Trolltech Greenphone SDK
[edit] References
- ^ Linux Devices article on the Greenphone. “Yrvin noted that Greenphone does contain some proprietary components, including its secure execution environment (SXE) package manager and its communications stack.”
- ^ Trolltech Press Release on the end of Greenphone produtions.
