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Linux-Based Phone Lasts 200 Hours on Standby
An anonymous reader writes "Motorola is showing off a Linux/Java phone with a claimed battery life of 200 hours on standby, or 200-250 minutes when talking. If those figures prove true, Linux sure is improving quickly on the power management front. That kind of battery life also suggests that the E895 might be the first single-chipset phone ever to run a complex OS, whether Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Linux. Other features are user-upgradable memory, 1.3MP camera, video capture, multimedia slideshows, and more. Hopefully a more U.S.-friendly version will follow, as happened when Mot's Linux-based quad-band A780 came out a year or so after it's tri-band forebear, the A768, shipped in China."
Granted, this isn't available to the average customer, its still cool.
Since I'm an average customer, I find your post tiresome. It's like telling everyone you have a kick ass swimming pool inside your house but refusing to invite anyone over. Remind me why I should care?
If you could see the code for the current OS used on most Motorola phones today, you would appreciate what a step forward going to Linux really is.
But I can't. So you're moving to yet another closed, Java-crippled platform. Who'da thunk? *yawn*