"Our final goal," said Nord (pictured here), "is to see phones that work better for the end user."
Manufactured by Yuhua Teltech in Shanghai, the Greenphone runs on a 312MHz Intel XScale processor, has a mini-USB port and a 1.3-megapixel camera, and takes standard mini-SD cards.
It also has SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) stack capabilities, which Nord said made it "easy" to produce VoIP capabilities and add multimedia functionality. "We'll see tons of applications, but I'm also interested in seeing new ways that people can interact with their phones," he said. Future iterations of the device are likely to include built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, but there are currently no plans to include GPS.
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