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grifter13
August 14th, 2007, 06:58 AM
Finally, Ubuntu is now on embedded systems such as mobile phone. I was wondering when that would happen. Anyone know if it has been conceived or planned to have Ubuntu on Motorola phones such as the Ming (A1200). Yes I know,,, Motorola is not very open-source friendly,,, but hey maybe huh.


Grifter13

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Michl
September 26th, 2007, 08:50 PM
I'm not sure what you mean, but Motorola A1200 has a linux
operating system but that doesn't mean it is linux friendly. Their
phone tools program runs only on windows and they have no
support for linux. I'm wondering about this gray area where
they use open source programs to run the telephone but not open source to connect and synchronize with the phone.

Michl

ComplexNumber
September 26th, 2007, 09:06 PM
Finally, Ubuntu is now on embedded systems such as mobile phone. I was wondering when that would happen. Anyone know if it has been conceived or planned to have Ubuntu on Motorola phones such as the Ming (A1200). Yes I know,,, Motorola is not very open-source friendly,,, but hey maybe huh.


Grifter13

<SIM> When in doubt, cut it out
<SIM> 0x2BAD2BAD, 0xDEADBEEF
not motorola, but intel has one planned for 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6634195.stm

there's some more info about it, but the website is down at the moment. i'll ost the link back when it's back up.

4nDr3s
March 20th, 2008, 09:22 PM
I found this video where there is a motorola a1200 with ubuntu...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpzCNvFls4k

Is it true??? watch it and you decide...

moffatt666
March 20th, 2008, 10:26 PM
I had a Motorola A910 on BT Fusion (switches between Wi-Fi and GSM/GPRS). It was so dire I got through 3 of them before giving-up and requesting a different phone. BT have since dropped he model from their line-up.

Gourgi
June 6th, 2008, 12:36 PM
I found this video where there is a motorola a1200 with ubuntu...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpzCNvFls4k

Is it true??? watch it and you decide...

it is true! it has ubuntu theme as it claims !!!
it has no ubuntu installed, just the theme
http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16518&highlight=ubuntu