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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 19:53 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>| Motorola's new flagship platform, SCPL ("scalpel") will redefine even
>>>| basic phone performance, Motorola mobile devices head Ron Garriques said
>>>| as he unveiled the first SCPL phone at a financial analysts' meeting
>>>| late on Tuesday.
>>>|
>>>| He also said Motorola will be abandoning the familiar operating system
>>>| used on its feature phones, such as the RAZR, for a Linux- and
>>>| Java-based solution.
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1994630,00.asp
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>> They've been going this way for some time, so I guess this is a bit of a
>> huge win for the linux world. The next question would be, how open is
>> the device? Can you get a copy of the kernel source?
>
> Only if you are a particular /type/ of person (like that which embarks on
> Nokia 770 or Zaurus adventures). Most people are happy enough the the click
> and the drool. Linux (with or without Java) can achieve this. See, for
> example, all of these Linux in the car appliances.
>
Actually, the N770 is, in vanilla form, perfectly usable. The browser
works just fine, and the real-player and mp3 players are fine too, so
for most people's day to day usage, it does what it says on the tin.
Adding things like gnumeric make reading & writing spreadsheets easy,
and the pdf viewer built-in is excellent. Of course the N770
distribution is ever growing, so there's a very wide range of add-on
stuff, but as I say, the basic vanilla setup is good. Latest firmware
(which is what you'd get now if you bought one) has the gizmo voip
client, too.
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