xnoor.com— Specs wise there is a WMP11 codec, a USB 2.0 interface, a touchscreen customized for music, 512MB of integrated storage and up to 2GB of (microSD?) user storage
Sep 1, 2007View in Crawl 4
I've owned every moto linux-powered phone they've made, true most are made for the chinese market, but so far they've all sucked and it's been all because of the OS, not the hardware (I love the ROKR E6's form factor). I found the OSt to be clunky, poorly designed and looks like it was just slapped together by a bunch of kids w/o any consideration for consistency. If you try to compare each and every little feature that moto has included in their linux phones to any other mobile phone OS (windows mobile, blackberry, palm os, etc, etc) you'll find not only does it not stack up in terms of the number of features but the features it does include are poorly implemented. (eg compare the email client on the E6 to any email client ever made for any platform, including little demos students have written in programming classes and you'll find it just doesn't stack up)There is some hope that now that the RAZR2 is linux powered and available worldwide (in mass quantities) that maybe more quality applications will be released and that moto will put more effort into making the included apps more modern and usable. But from what I've seen so far I can't honestly recommend a linux-powered phone to anybody and I feel that the current implementations of linux for mobile phones is really hurting the OS's reputation and overall chances of succeeding in the mobile phone market.
My A1200 runs Workbench 1.3 and AmigaDOS with zero issues. Shadow of the Beat is a little slow though. I guess I'm not expecting Psygnosis to fix this :()
Microsoft sells WMP11 codec via java for cellphones. This is a separate product from MSFT than the media player. MSFT doesn't care what format you use on OSX, but they HOPE you sync your cellphone on Vista.
rrifeSep 2, 2007
I've owned every moto linux-powered phone they've made, true most are made for the chinese market, but so far they've all sucked and it's been all because of the OS, not the hardware (I love the ROKR E6's form factor). I found the OSt to be clunky, poorly designed and looks like it was just slapped together by a bunch of kids w/o any consideration for consistency. If you try to compare each and every little feature that moto has included in their linux phones to any other mobile phone OS (windows mobile, blackberry, palm os, etc, etc) you'll find not only does it not stack up in terms of the number of features but the features it does include are poorly implemented. (eg compare the email client on the E6 to any email client ever made for any platform, including little demos students have written in programming classes and you'll find it just doesn't stack up)There is some hope that now that the RAZR2 is linux powered and available worldwide (in mass quantities) that maybe more quality applications will be released and that moto will put more effort into making the included apps more modern and usable. But from what I've seen so far I can't honestly recommend a linux-powered phone to anybody and I feel that the current implementations of linux for mobile phones is really hurting the OS's reputation and overall chances of succeeding in the mobile phone market.
muniakSep 3, 2007
Because dude, it's not true. It's just a bad and extremely overused joke; that I have always had a weakness for >,
marx2kSep 3, 2007
Damn, you sold the phone to your grandmother? f**kin capitalists...
marx2kSep 3, 2007
My A1200 runs Workbench 1.3 and AmigaDOS with zero issues. Shadow of the Beat is a little slow though. I guess I'm not expecting Psygnosis to fix this :()
miketSep 3, 2007
microusb isnt proprietary
arthursucksSep 3, 2007
Microsoft sells WMP11 codec via java for cellphones. This is a separate product from MSFT than the media player. MSFT doesn't care what format you use on OSX, but they HOPE you sync your cellphone on Vista.