Motorola Launches A760 Linux and Java Smartphone

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 1, 2003 @02:15AM from the phoning-home dept.

securitas writes "Motorola launched its A760 Linux and Java smartphone in China today. The dual-mode GSM/GPRS phone uses a version of MontaVista Linux, Motorola's i250 chip for communications, Intel's 200 MHz PXA262 chip (based on the XScale PXA250) for computing with 256 MB RAM, and software that includes a personal information management application, digital camera, a video player, MP3 music player, and an instant-messaging tool. The A760 is the first of Motorola's Linux-based phones. Eventually Motorola plans to use Linux in most of its phones."

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Re:Why Intel? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-01 02:29 · Score: 4, Informative

I find it even more ironic that they would go with MontaVista when they own Metrowerks who has their own embedded linux.
Uses Linux, but does not expose it by mparaz · 2003-11-01 02:32 · Score: 4, Informative

Motorola's own page for the product does not even mention that it uses Linux. I doubt they'll officially support people trying to get a root shell prompt on it.