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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have an iPhone and yet I am still attracted to the simplicity of the motofone, so ill probably get one as backup fone,
I have an iPhone and yet I am still attracted to the simplicity of the motofone, so ill probably get one as backup fone,
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.
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.
Did you ever get it to sing?
No, sorry to say, never found that magic command, and No SDK either.