On Thursday 12 August 2010 23:31:39 Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
Little off the track, but are there any cheap chinese knock-off phones that run Android or Meego or maybe the recently open-sourced Symbian? Would be fun try out one!
Got an el cheapo apple knockoff chinese phone model PK168. Has wifi, bluetooth, microsd, usb (webcam, masstorage, serial, pict bridge (whatever that is), ebook reader, opera all the usual multimedia stuff and plenty of trash (RP games) - in Chinese.
Usability is quite ok. The touch screen and accelerometer work well. Biggest suprise was "wifi dialing" - voip. Now i have to rig up freeswitch and voila home mobile intercom. will be very useful as i live in a row house and you have to shout to talk to someone. Let down was that it has only 5 phone groups and you cannot add more.
Processor is MTK6325 an arm 926ej with a custom dsp from MediaTek, a chinese fabless design house. Infact most of the chinese ebooks and phones use the MT processors (MTK62xx series), which already have linux hacks. Doze based Reflashing software is available on the MT website and in principle it would be possible to load linux.
Just tried the doze reflash and got the NOR flash start address. Afaik it is standard arm boot start.