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Linux Smartphones Race To Be 1st In U.S.
An anonymous reader writes "The race is on for first mover in the domestic US Linux smartphone market! Last week, Motorola announced a new Linux-based business user smartphone that's expected to ship to US customers by the end of 2004. Meanwhile, Chinese phone maker e28 will debut its latest Linux-based smartphone at LinuxWorld this week, and will soon begin distributing it in the Chicago area. Both devices are pretty cool. The quad-band Moto phone features a 1.3 megapixel camera, Intel's latest cell-phone chip, and fancy sync software that (currently only) works with Microsoft email servers at this point (others pending). e28's phone is an upgrade to its previously announced e2800, which became the world's first commercially available Linux phone when it shipped in China in August, 2003 [Slashdot discussion]. Interestingly, e28 was founded in 2002 by the former president of Mot's Asia Pacific cell phone division -- the world's largest mobile market."
Things I want in my phone:
rsync my text-file-phone-book with my desktop.
cron / at as a reminder service.
scp my voicemails and photos and text messages to&from my desktop.
If I can do all that, I'm getting one. Otherwise, I agree, what's the point.
it does not, that was the whole point of mine(that you don't get any geeky fun with it like you would with a zaurus for example).
these things would not expose the linux side to the outer world by any way, it would be more like a web kiosk in your pocket or whatever(and j2me is very sandboxed).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Most of the day, annoying isn't it ?
VOIP capabilities
:-)
Given the crazy price per MB for GPRS data (at least here in the UK), I think it would be cheaper to...err....just make a call with the thing.
Information wants to be beer.