Motorola chairman: Mobiles for under $15 likely by 2008
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| Mobile phones costing less than $15 will be available in developing
| countries by 2008, Motorola Chairman David Brown has predicted.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6131929.html
When the price of software royalities exceeds the worth of hardware...
That's the rationale for Linux in the mobile space, according to some
experts. The $100 laptops is proof of parallels in the desk/laptop space.
The AMD/Intel price wars help.
very recent:
Motorola to build open source Java ME community
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| Motorola Inc. plans to establish an open source community for the Java
| Micro Edition (Java ME) software stack for the mobile industry...
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18482572190021E87C
Motorola Prepping Linux-based RAZR Smartphone?
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| We know that Moto has a Linux-based ROKR ready to go that's already
| cleared the FCC labyrinth of regulation, so it's likely that the RAZR
| in this shot will sport some Linuxy goodness.
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http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/31/motorola-prepping-linux-based-razr-smartphone/
Linux makes Mot tops in PDA/smartphone growth
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| Strong Linux smartphone sales in China helped Motorola achieve
| the highest overall year-on-year growth among the top five vendors
| in the PDA/Smartphone market, according to Gartner. In contrast,
| Motorola's Symbian- and Microsoft-based smartphones are "not
| making significant progress," Gartner reports.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8166328994.html
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