Motorola Readies Music-oriented Linux Mobile Phone

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 10, 2004 @10:35PM from the camera-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Motorola has announced several new multimedia-enabled mobile phones supporting music and video playback, including one new device based on embedded Linux, according to LinuxDevices.com. The Linux-based Motorola E680 could see US distribution, making it the first of Motorola's Linux-based mobile phones available outside the far East. The E680 will include multimedia playback software supporting a variety of formats, including MP3 audio, MPEG4 video, and RealPlayer multimedia content." The article notes: "Motorola's previous Linux-based phones have been based on MontaVista Linux, and have used the Qt/Embedded graphical application framework."

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Non-USA brand please? by ckathens · 2004-03-11 03:35 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Sounds like a nice idea, but I wouldn't buy a Motorolla phone unless it was the last phone left on earth. American cell phones are...blech... A Nokia or Erickson, or even a Japanese phone with these features would get snapped up by a lot more people who trust these phones way more than a product designed in Texas......