Video demo of Google's Android mobile phone platform
This video by PhoneMag shows a cell phone produced by China-based E28 using the Android mobile phone platform. (Their Web site claims that they are "The Leader of Linux Mobile Converges Devices") The touch screen is similar to the iTouch interface that the iPhone uses, although in this case the screen is much smaller so I wouldn't expect any navigation that requires two fingers.
The company's rep shows off some 3D graphics as a way of demonstrating how efficiently this platform can work with even a "low-tier processor."
What makes this particularly interesting is the specs of the E2831: it uses a relatively old OMAP TI 730 chipset, running at just 200MHz, and has a mere 64MB RAM and 64MB ROM. Android runs with no modifications, and the E28 team were even able to download applications coded for the platform from the internet and install them directly to the handset. This, then, is some of that unlocked, open-source simplicity we were promised when the platform was first announced.
The Treo 755p has 128 MB of memory powered by Intel XScale 312MHz processor, just for comparison.
I wonder if this could represent the tipping point for some high-end mobile medical applications such as embedded speech recognition.
UPDATE: LinuxDevices presents this exclusive interview with Roger Kung, Chairman and CEO of E28, a Linux smartphone startup in Shanghai, China.
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