[wellylug] Motorola Linux based "smartphone"....?

[Jo 'Mangee' Booth]

For completeness sake...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Duncan Kennington
> Date: 29 October 2005 20:01:15.0
> To: 'Jo Booth' , 'Wellington's curry munchers'  
> <wellington at list.thursdaynightcurry.com>
> Subject: RE: [ThursdayNightCurry: Wlg] Motorola Linux based  
> "smartphone"..(heard at BBC?)
> Reply-To: Wellington's curry munchers  
> <wellington at list.thursdaynightcurry.com>
>
>
> May have been me - it's the Motorola E680i - reviewed at
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12212
> And elsewhere on the web.
>
> On trademe for around $450 but you can get new ones for similar $$$  
> from an
> Auckland based distributor with a 1 year warranty.  I'll find out  
> who next
> week.
>
> You can download the kernel source from sourceforge at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/e680/  - how many phones can you do  
> that
> for? :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From  On Behalf Of Jo
> 'Mangee' Booth
> Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2005 5:55 p.m.
> To: Wellington's curry munchers
> Subject: [ThursdayNightCurry: Wlg] Motorola Linux based  
> "smartphone"..(heard
> at BBC?)
>
> At BBC the other afternoon, someone mentioned their workmate had a
> "Motorola" ???? model Linux smartphone that was about $300 NZD and  
> did a
> fair few of the things i'm looking for...
> See <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mangee/45677.html> for my  
> list of
> "requirements"
>
> Anyone remember this conversation and can point me in the right  
> direction?
>
> I note these: <http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4911>
> seem promising... but real life experience and local sources can't  
> be beat.
>
> -Jo
> [currently carrying two phones.. the third is plugged into the linux
> box in the corner]
>
>
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