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Motorola+Qtopia=Linux Smart Phone

Posted by timothy on from the tricorder dept.

lems1 writes "Start compiling the excuses you will tell your boss to upgrade your cell phone now. Motorola has opted to use Trolltech's Qtopia to power up the next generation of SmartPhones. Get the scoop/specs from here and a nice high-res picture from this other link. The phone will have 'digital camera, video player, MP3 player, speakerphone, advanced messaging, instant Internet access and Bluetooth wireless technology' capabilities. On top of being Linux-based of course." Update: 11/12 00:44 GMT by T : Yep, this is the same phone mentioned a few weeks ago.

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  1. Re:One more step towards Star Trek... by wed128 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe that's why driving and talking on a cell are illegal in some states? because now people are driving, talking, watching video's, listening to MP3s and IMing to their hearts content!

  2. Re:I wish they'd stop... by Davak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, we should trade phones!

    I want a phone into which I can dictate... then just sync it into my computer and let dragon dictate transcribe it for me.

    Palm, page, phone, and dictaphone... my belt makes me look like BATMAN these days.

    Davak

  3. Re:I wish they'd stop... by interiot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work at a place that makes friggin' blasted camera functions on phones. And guess what the company's policy is? The burly men will throw my Canon DSLR in the incinerator, but camera phones are just fine to bring in.

  4. VisorPhones by dark-br · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have the forefather, one of those old VisorPhones that you put in springboard of a Visor. It's about 2 years old now I think, and quite big in my pocket, if you compare with these new models. Still, I wouldn't trade for any of those other "smart phones" out there, except for this new Treo 600 of course. Why buy a phone that also tries to act as a pda, when you can get a really good pda, that can also act as a phone? I mean, the gadgets of a cellphone are more important than the phone itself, right. :)

  5. Re:Confused by Linux+Ate+My+Dog! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many manufacturers do, except for Nokia & Sony Ericsson. Samsung, for example, is pumping out phones in world markets will all kinds of OSes, just to see what sticks.

    What sticks are good UIs.