linuxdevices.com — Motorola is shipping the first model in its Scpl ("scalpel") line of mobile phones set to replace the ubiquitous Razr. The Linux-based Motofone F3, available today in India, is an extremely low-end device featuring an "electronic paper" display, breakthrough battery life, and usability features for the illiterate.
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kash04Nov 29, 2006
BSNL in india offers mobile landlines :) its pretty awesome its a mobile yet stationary phone pretty awesome best of all you can throw it in your car like the old bag phones
charaznableNov 29, 2006
Very impressive. I see it appealing to even affluent people in industrialized nations who are sick of carrying around pseudocomputers and just. want. a. phone. I know I'd get one as backup to my Berry or to carry around when I go on vacation and stuff and I don't want to deal with crap from work and stuff.
bebopreduxNov 29, 2006
I like.I would love to have a plain jane cell phone. mp3 playback, digital camera, email...I could care less. Give me a phone with a a numeric keypad and contacts. That's it. Give it a great battery that only serves to power the phone and not all the other power grabbing add-ons. I'd buy this in a heartbeat.
Closed AccountNov 29, 2006
Its a phone, it makes and receives calls from other people. That's good enough for me.... I don't need no stinkin' messaging
paulowenNov 29, 2006
When will they learn that a txt l33t name won't make up for a cr@p phone? I seriously hope this doesn't have the same interface/firmware flaws of every other Motorola phone I've ever bought.scpl? The Motorola ScepticalThe Motorola Scoopful (of what?)The Motorola Scrappily
lump1Nov 30, 2006
I absolutely agree. If the phone is going to be a good music player then I'll use it as one. If it's going to be a meh music player, it might as well not play any music at all. I will not be carrying headphones for it! So if Apple's phone is as good a music player as a nano, and also a good phone to boot, I'd be tempted. Otherwise, I'll just want as unobtrusive a phone as possible, and I'll carry a separate, good music player. This moto (I'm too embarassed to use ther stupid codenames) is the best design I've seen yet. I definitely would pay $50 for it!
Closed AccountNov 30, 2006
ughh, unfortunately, with Verizon you need to sell one kidney and two children to sex slave shops in Germany just to pay for the monthly "Data" plan. It pisses me off so much. I'm stuck in a FamilyShare plan with... my family... and I want a BlackBerry so bad, but I don't 80 dollars to pay every month for a phone.
mutatronNov 30, 2006
I still have one! I got one free one and another one for $25 when I worked for Ericsson and they discontinued the line. I dropped one of them which cracked the LCD, but the other one is still good. For a while it kept turning on and off, but examining the battery I noticed it was somewhat distended. I poked a hole in the aluminum covering. That flattened it out, and now it works perfectly.It's so thin and light! Another thing I like is being able to compose my own ring tones. I don't much like to hear "high quality" sound as a ring tone.
smoothlyDec 1, 2006
my problem is that i couldnt find dun drivers for the durn thing... after googleing for hours i found some drivers at <a class="user" href="http://wireless-internet-access-provider.com/wireless-internet-access-from-moto-q-bluetooth-dun-hack.html">http://wireless-internet-access-provider.com/wireless-internet-access-from-moto-q-bluetooth-dun-hack.html</a> BUT not sure how to install yet. anybody try doing the wireless broadband dun to a mac book pro?
sworocDec 4, 2006
Ever heard of the Borg? =)
dimmaMar 8, 2007
Really nice onebut Nokia ....
iadiggs10Sep 29, 2007
Actually, that's without the contract agreement finkployd.