FIC ’s taking more than just a Sir Frederick Handley Page from the Linux community with its FIC - GTA001 smartphone — its taking their entire playbook . Hoping to capitalise on what is essentially costless computer programmer for the project , FIC is unblock a Linux - based smartphone stark with an SDK ( Software Development Kit ) . This provide end - exploiter to acquire their own programs and functionality for the phone ( envision an U. S. Army of geeks do certain you’re able to play back DivX on your phone ) .
The phone itself has a 2.8 - in VGA video display , USB meshing filing cabinet sharing , multi - touch detector realisation , GSM , GPS , 128 MB RAM , a Samsung ARM9 - based processor and MP3 playback capabilities . The concept of their multi - touch gesture is that you may use two finger’s breadth to control a variety of tasks , such as two fingerbreadth scroll like the PowerBooks and MacBooks . Some demo pics of the gesture abilities after the start . Even though the phone will credibly only trade to DIY - ER and Linux enthusiasts , there may be some interesting applications that make out out of this .
FIC Linux Cellphone – can it bewitch the imagination of the capable - source community?[Slashgear ]
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