Brevisys knocking off the iPhone with deeda Pi?
Brevisys, who I'll readily admit I've never heard of before, are to launch three 'deeda' handsets which look suspiciously like the iPhone, particularly the deeda Pi.
The company claim that the Pi phone was in development before the iPhone and LG Prada phone were unveiled, and insist their design is original, with patents pending on the design and interface.
What's interesting is that they're making a thing about the phone's ability to be personalised. "We believe in individual creativity, not just a company's internal creativity and their ideas," writes the company.
The handset will use a Linux-based operating system, embracing an open-source philosophy, and allowing users to freely install programs or receive code changes from third-party developers.
It's a 3.6 inch, 800x480 resolution touch screen phone, with high-resolution proximity sensor and vibration touch feedback.
It has WLAN, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, and comes with the Firefox 2 browser installed. As well as 8GB of flash storage, it will have the option of a 30GB or 60GB hard drive, and will also come with a VGA camera on the front, for video calls, along with its 2 megapixel camera.
The claimed battery life is 5 hours talk time and 4 hours Internet browsing.
Brevisys expects to ship the deeda phone sometime in the summer, though pricing and network details are as yet unknown.
On the one hand, it sounds promising. Those against locked down systems might love the potential that Linux brings, and its feature set sounds good. Whether it will be seen as an iPhone killer or not remains to be seen.
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