SHR (formerly Stable Hybrid Release) wasAccording t
the last commit in the SHR branch of meta-smartphone
SHR is no longer maintained. a community-driven

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for smartphones which was based on

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, and th
freesmartphone.org (FSO)
framework. Several different graphical toolkits were made available, such as

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and Qt.

Supported devices

The unstable and testing releases were released for

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and FreeRunner smartphones. Later on, SHR Core supported the FreeRunner and the GTA04. SHR Core was also being ported to several devices like the

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, the

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, the

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and

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devices. with various degrees of completion.

Applications

SHR had several rudimentary"OpenMoko: its present and future"
2009 article on

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about OpenMoko, with a review of SHR. applications specially made for it, like an address book software, a dialer, an SMS application and so on. It was also possible to install these applications on Debian.DebianOnFreeRunner page
on th
Debian Wiki
/ref> Many graphical Linux applications were also available like

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and

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, and it was also possible to use the terminal with the ash shell through a terminal application. Front-ends for

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, and other software lik
FoxtrotGPS
that were developed for the OpenMoko and/or the distributions that ran on it were also available on SHR.

Software stack

The use of

enabled to use many

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applications, with various degrees of usability due to hardware constraints of the supported devices. Most/All of the supported devices had small displays with high

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, and most of them had only a touchscreen based input and very few buttons. SHR used the FSO framework middleware to handle the smartphones power management and various peripherals.Th
freesmartphone.org cornucopia source code
and olde
framework
source code have more details. Several SHR developers were also contributing to the FSO framework in order to port SHR to newer devices.

References

External links

SHR official website

SHR on Openmoko Wiki
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Supported devices

Applications

Software stack

See also

References

External links