Settings screen provides a comprehensive suite of tools to adjust a variety of mobile environment settings. We will dive into the details of each one of them.

Appearance settings allow changes of look and feel of the GPE environment.

Bluetooth Manager

System Time

DocTab Settings

Language Settings

Launcher settings allows customization of what will be shown in Taskbar, Home menu, Tabs, etc.

In Light and Power Settings, you could change your power savings settings.

Select Media Mount Settings to configure how you would like to handle certain type of files stored on the card once it is mounted.

Network Settings is the place to set up and configure your network interfaces including wireless cards, here is what you could do.

Package Manager is a very good Mobile Linux package management tool. It serves the same function as "Add/Remove Applications" utility in Windows.

Recalibrate allows you to set up the alignment of the touch screen.

Security Configuration

Shutdown Configuration

Today Screen Configuration

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, ...?