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Review Of Linux-based Motorola A768i

Posted by timothy on from the not-in-your-mouth dept.

Eugenia writes "MobileBurn published a review of Motorola's A768i, the Linux-based smartphone that employs a PDA-style form factor. It may not have much in the way of photo-taking abilities, but the A768i might be the thing for business users as it excels in the phone/messaging category."

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  1. A cellphone without extra doo-hickeys? by physicsphairy · · Score: 5, Funny
    "It may not have much in the way of photo-taking abilities, but the A768i might be the thing for business users as it excels in the phone/messaging category."

    Since when to people use phones for that anymore? ;)

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  2. At CeBit this year .. by torpor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. I saw a Motorola Linux phone that really had me drooling - it was just a simple "bar of soap" form-factor, no keys, one big O-LED display on one side of the rectangular black plastic form, and when you hit the On button, the whole thing lit up.

    It was running Linux, only the guy demo'ing it wouldn't really let me play with it too much .. he did show me some videos on it, and demo'ed the voice-recognition features, which seemed pretty workable. But, alas, it doesn't look like Motorola are releasing this one too soon .. anyone know of the "bar of soap" Linux phone from Mot?

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    1. Re:At CeBit this year .. by aka.Daniel'Z · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'm not sure I got that "bar of soap" idea right, but maybe you're talking about the Motorola A1000?

  3. No pad? by HotshotXV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So I tried to RTFA, and I got a 500 error past the first page - so my question is without a numeric keypad, how the heck do you dial the phone? Do you use the stylus - cause that would just be annoying.

  4. Lockdown by tomalpha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd love to know exactly how well this Linux phone is locked-down to prevent tampering and "copyright abuses", or another way, how easy it will be to write cool hacks for it myself.

    Will they release a tool-chain? Will every piece of software have to be certified before use (as most network operators seem to like). Will it be hackable like the Linksys Wireless routers

    Am I being naive and engaging in wishful thinking?