First, let's see what the normal navigations around home screen look like:

These are the menus available at the home screen.

Some games are included in the default release. You could easily download more.

Icons are available for indication and quick access.

Notice a camera icon on the tray. This is a very handy tool for screenshot. All the screenshots here are taken using this application.

Screen orientation could easily be changed to Landscape or Portrait.

System Info provides comprehensive information about your mobile device.

In the default release there is a a video and music player. Additional multimedia applications could be downloaded online from the package repository.

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.

Compare Familiar distribution to other mobile Linux platform, such as OpenMoko, TrollTech Greenphone, OpenZaurus, etc, ...?