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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."

3 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linux Improving Battery Life? by William+Robinson · · Score: 3, Informative
    Nowhere in the article does it say that linux is the reason behind the batteries long standby time

    It does....See this from TFA.

    If true, these figures suggest Linux has made great progress in consumer electronics power management, possibly through the efforts of MontaVista, which has supplied the Linux used in all of Motorola's previous Linux phones.

    Read this too.

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  2. Re:Too less of user memory? by freitasm · · Score: 3, Informative

    The memory is 10MB, but TransFlash cards can be used - with cards up to 512MB available and compatible with the phone.

    The OP says user-upgradable memory, which is quite not correct - the memory card is in addition to the 10MB but it's not a on-board upgrade. It's just an expansion - like in any other current smartphone or even featured phone in the market.

  3. Re:Something smaller, more efficient; yes. but... by mikolas · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone who has been forced to do some Symbian programming in the past, I can tell you that Symbian is not the right platform for efficient software development. From that perspective, going with Linux or Windows CE is a wise decision. And even more important, Windows and Linux have fairly large software base that can be easily ported to mobile devices' limited API functionality. Well, more easily than to Symbian at least.