Motorola’s Linux-based Rokr E2 mobile phone looks ready to challenge Sony/Ericsson’s Walkman phone in the hot emerging market for converged PMP phones (portable media player phones), according to this hands-on review. The phone uses the Chaemeleon API (enhanced Qt, no SDK available).
A Review of Motorola’s Linux-based Rokr E2 Music Phone
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I’m still having a hard time figuring out how to get my photos off my Telus V3c Razr without paying their awful fees …
… not to mention, how to get MP3s on to it!
Gotta find MPT4 somewhere, but it’s nigh impossible.
There’s p2kman which I believe works with the Razr series, although I’ve not tested it myself on those phones. It does work well with my v551 which, other than outward appearance, is a very similar phone.
Be warned though: You can seriously screw up your phone using p2kman as it has no built in safeguards to keep you out of sensitive areas of the phone’s file system. Make sure you read up as much as possible about it. That being said, I’ve been using it for the past year to customize my phone’s ringers, pictures and themes as well as offload photos with no issues at all.
sounds like a interesting phone this one.
Edited 2006-07-15 19:54
That with this new generation of motorola phones, that they make damned sure that the software that goes on them is rock solid, 6 of my friends bought razr’s, all of them have ended up returning them due to constantly crashing and in two cases, crashing so badly they wouldn’t start up again.
Certainly, my friends won’t be touching another motorola again in a long, long time.
I was just going to mention that, Motorola + reliability has been proving to = elusive ever since they stopped making the Startac/Timeport series flip phones.
It’s possible that the addition of Linux will increase the reliability of Moto’s phones, but alot of their issues seem to be hardware based.
Linux is many things, but “magic bullet” is nowhere to be found on the list if it comes down to shoddy hardware. 😛