The opposite of iPhone, The MotoFone F3

While the rest of the world is talking about the iPhone like Tom O2 to sell the iPhone?. I went to Lidl this morning a pickup a mobile, that can only be described as the antitheses of the iPhone the Motofone F3 and I can tell you after only a few hours of use, it’s as beautiful a mobile phone as the iPhone, in exactly the target audience it was proposed for, as that proposed by the iPhone’s target audience.

I’ll report more as I go along, but for now, I’m just as happy to have this phone as I might have been to be one of the proud iPhone owners.

I am still trying to find out if it runs Linux.

UPDATE: The F3 is a SCPL (scalpel) class device which runs a Java/Linux derived OS called JUIX now all I have to do is hack a command line interface to really get this thing to sing 😉

Links:
Motorola Motofone F3 Dissassembly
Motorola Motofone F3
Motorola Motofone F3

12 comments on “The opposite of iPhone, The MotoFone F3

  1. Damn.

    I just bought a Sony Ericsson walkman phone for the same price. I like the look of the motofone f3. Keep us posted.

    Walter

  2. Damn.

    I just bought a Sony Ericsson walkman phone for the same price. I like the look of the motofone f3. Keep us posted.

    Walter

  3. I’m sure I didn’t get a real bargin with this phone, but it is slender, readable by my farsighted eyes, and does what I need, send and receive calls, and SMS. I have an iPod, and a Lumix camera, I don’t need these in a phone.

  4. I’m sure I didn’t get a real bargin with this phone, but it is slender, readable by my farsighted eyes, and does what I need, send and receive calls, and SMS. I have an iPod, and a Lumix camera, I don’t need these in a phone.

  5. I really like the idea of an unlocked phone. I’m happy enough with the ericsson walkman phone (keys are bit on the small side) but had I known about the f3 I’d probably have bought that instead.

  6. I really like the idea of an unlocked phone. I’m happy enough with the ericsson walkman phone (keys are bit on the small side) but had I known about the f3 I’d probably have bought that instead.

  7. I have an iPhone and yet I am still attracted to the simplicity of the motofone, so ill probably get one as backup fone,

  8. I have an iPhone and yet I am still attracted to the simplicity of the motofone, so ill probably get one as backup fone,

  9. I now have a Nokia 6300 as I needed a tri-band phone for a trip to the U.S. but I’ve been told that the 6300 has a short life span, and I’m keeping the F3 as a backup.

  10. I now have a Nokia 6300 as I needed a tri-band phone for a trip to the U.S. but I’ve been told that the 6300 has a short life span, and I’m keeping the F3 as a backup.

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