Learning from the Nokia 770 and Maemo.org, Motorola is wooing open-source developers for the A1200 GNU/Linux-based mobile phone. Tit for tat, in effect? Remember, the Nokia 770 will be doing VoiP.
The Motorola courtship site is here.
So what are the possibilities for e-book-related apps? Or is this thing just plain not worth the trouble?
Display is a 2.4-inch QVGA–a TFT touchscreen with 320×240 res. Chip is an Intel XScale PXA270. Storage is said to be 8MB expandable to 512MB via microSD cards, aka “T-cards.” So, yes, the 1200 conceivably could hold its share of books.
A related question: What are the obligations of a large outfit like Motorola to the open source community? That’s one of the issues arising in Slashdotters’ comments on the new initiative.
(Via Slashdot and Linux Devices.)
Or, you could just put Plucker (already open-source) on a Treo. The new 700p Treo has a nice 320×320 screen.