Linux Touchscreen Phone – A Premiere for Access

26th October, 2009 by adina
Tags: Access, Linux, Phones, TouchScreen

Access offered, a few days ago, its first touchscreen phone, named ELSE together with the Linux phone operating system ELSE INTUITION. Purchasing the rights to Palm OS has made Access famous. Now they entered the phone market with this 3.5-inch touchscreen, co-designed by Emblaze. The Linux platform has been upgraded with a custom interface consisting in a rotary-like home screen and several menus easy to access with one hand only, as well as a more complex multi-tasking interface showing all the applications that are running at a certain moment. Buttons grouped in a side strip provide easy navigation up and down through interface levels. Access and Emblaze claim that ELSE has been tested by many carriers worldwide, but there is no concrete strategy by now regarding launching. When such an event will take place, more details will be available.

The high-end media phone ELSE has an 854×480-pixel screen and 16GB of built-in memory. Other features include a 5-megapixel camera, 3G connectivity and GPS navigation. It’s limited to Access’ NetFront web browser. ELSE provides push e-mail support and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics.

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