LinuxDevices: Hands-on Preview: Motorola Rokr E2 Music Phone

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Linux graphics stack vendor Trolltech recently supplied LinuxDevices.com with a Motorola Rokr E2 music phone for (p)review. The phone appears to be the same E2 that shipped in China last week through carrier China Mobile, but semi-localized to the U.S., to demonstrate the phone's capabilities to stateside carriers and journalists.

"The Linux-powered Rokr E2 phone has FCC approval, and could be sold in U.S., pending carrier interest. As a tri-band (850/900/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS phone, the E2 would most likely be picked up by Cingular, which operates a 1900MHz GSM band in the U.S..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Linux.com: Linux and Smart Phones(Mar 06, 2006)
• InfoWorld: The Nokia 770: A Linux-Based Ugly Duckling(Jan 02, 2006)
• Linux.com: Four Linux Softphones Reviewed(Oct 02, 2005)
• Personal Computer World: Suse Linux Professional 9.3 64bit(Aug 23, 2005)