Linux-Powered Dual-Mode ImCoSys Phone

Story posted on: February 28, 2006, filed in: linux

Swiss company, ImCoSys, announced its intention to release a dual-mode mobile phone that also uses GPS. The PDA-like phone will star next month at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. According to its datasheet, the smartphone is based on the Texas Instruments OMAP 730 processor, the same used by the E28. Running on Linux 2.4.20, the phone supports German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. The phone has a PDA-like LCD TFT touchscreen, supporting 262K colors and QVGA resolution. The ImCoSys phone should reach the market sometime in June 2006.

Phone Specifications:

• Measures 125 x 64 x 18mm
• 64MB RAM
• 64MB Flash
• Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) with GPRS Class 10 and CSD modems
• 802.11b WiFi, with WPA support
• Bluetooth 1.2
• GPS receiver
• 262K TFT LCD QVGA resolution
• USB port
• RS232 serial port
• Web/WAP 2.0 browser
• Java runtime (MIDP 2.0)
• push/pop/smtp email

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