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Linux-Based Phone Lasts 200 Hours on Standby

Posted by timothy on from the does-it-have-good-games dept.

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."

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  1. No cynicism by Kinky+Bass+Junk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oooh, that's nice, and I accept a plethora of comments to stream past about how we don't need this in a phone, and that a phone is a phone... But don't you just look at this and think "wow... we've come a long way". I know I do.

    A great phone by itself, with the addition of lotsa power, i'm liking it :)

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    Anonymous Coward
  2. Sure, it lasts 200 hours on standby, but by gonerill · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you try to use it, it texts you with the message "Can't find lib.so.8"

  3. Re:linux, linux, linux by aug24 · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not like I'm going to ssh into my phone, fire up emacs, and start hacking on my latest C++ app.

    Hand back your /. userid immediately, loser!

    J.

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    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  4. How easy is it to use... by PrivateDonut · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shell:
    to send message:
    $ message --body Hi, how are you doing? --recipient 0415898537
    bash: message: command not found

    1. Re:How easy is it to use... by William+Robinson · · Score: 4, Funny
      LOL..Also you could add features like...

      if [ $caller==BOSS ]
      then
      $call >> /dev/null
      fi

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      hilarious
  5. Wow, UNIX phone. by ceeam · · Score: 2, Funny

    mount -t gsm /dev/gsm1 /tmp/.call -o number=1-555-3456
    cp /tmp/.call/incoming /dev/speaker& ...

  6. Cool, but... by brainnolo · · Score: 3, Funny

    will it be able to make phone calls?

  7. manpages by mnemonic_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it require you to read the manpages to answer a call?

  8. Re:Linux Improving Battery Life? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the article is about how "now linux can do what others have been doing for sometime"?

    Meh.