built on Linux), that was
announced in November 2007 along with the creation of the Open
Handset Alliance (OHA). Other leading companies - Motorola,
Lenovo, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, etc. - are working on
smartphones that will run Android in the near future.

= The @folio project

The @folio project is a reading device conceived in October
1996 by Pierre Schweitzer, an architect-designer living in
Strasbourg, France. It is meant to download and read any text
and/or illustrations from the web or hard disk, in any format,
with no proprietary format and no DRM. Unfortunately, to this
day (in August 2009), @folio has stayed a prototype, because of
lack of funding and because of the language barrier - one
article in English for dozens of articles in French.

The technology of @folio is novel and simple, and very
different from other reading devices, past or present. It is
inspired from fax and tab file folders. The flash memory is
"printed" like Gutenberg printed his books. The facsimile mode
is readable as is for any content, from sheet music to
mathematical or chemical formulas, with no conversion
necessary, whether it is handwritten text, calligraphy, free
hand drawing or non-alphabetical writing. All this is difficult
if not impossible on a computer or any existing reading device.

The lightweight prototype is built with high-quality materials.
The screen takes 80% of the total surface and has low power
consumption. It is surrounded by a translucent and flexible
frame that folds to protect the screen when not in use. @folio
could be sold for US $100 for the basic standard version, with
various combinations of screen sizes and flash memory to fit
the specific needs of architects, illustrators, musicians,
specialists in old languages, etc.

Intuitive navigation allows to "turn" pages as easily as in a
print book, to classify and search documents as easily as with
a tab file folder, and to choose preferences for margins,
paragraphs, font selection and character size. No buttons, only
a round trackball adorned with the world map in black and
white. The trackball can be replaced with a long and narrow
tactile pad on either side of the frame.

The flash memory allows the downloading of thousands of
hypertext pages, either previously linked before download or
linked during the downloading process. @folio provides an
instant automatic reformatting of documents, for them to fit
the size of the screen. For "text" files,