GPE Linux installed on iPaq.

Here are what are shown when navigating to Other screen.

Here are some common utilities such as Calculator, Text Editor, Watch, etc.

Looking into the system informations.

Navigate to Media from Home screen. This screen provides a few typical multimedia applications. In the default release noticeably missing applications are a good video player and a good music player. Some of these could be downloaded online from their package repository?

Image Gallery is a photo album and viewer for various image formats, such as ...

Audio Mixer

Image Gallery

Record a memo and player it back in mp3?

A very handy tool is provided for screenshot. All the screenshots here are taken using this application.

Familiar distribution along with GPE or Opie (or even a full blown Linux environment) provides a very good foundation to build a open mobile Linux platform upon which businesses and individuals could take advantages of. Given that most of the vendors exited the standalone handheld or PDA market, applications such as phone (yeah phone, both GSM and CDMA), GPS, and so on are sorely needed. There are individual efforts to port this platform to other phones, such as Palm Treo, HTC device-based Pocket PC phones but none is stable enough for day to day use yet.