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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. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... but can it run Linux? No wait..

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

  2. Yes.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it run linux?

    WOMAOTS is the word!

  3. Re:linux, linux, linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot, meet pedantic bore.

    pedantic bore, meet Slashdot.

  4. If only .. by Peter_JS_Blue · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    .. the plebs that made my NEC e606 3G phone had used this technology I might get a bit more standby time than the current 3.5 minutes !!

    (OK, its really 3.5 hours but its still crap.)

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