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ACCESS and Emblaze Mobile have recently unveiled their new Else Intuition phone, a successor to the first ELSE handset. It runs on Access Linux Platform v3.0 with touch UI, which provides advanced flexibility and configurability, allowing users to run multiple applications at the same time. Other features include:

• Application processor: TI OMAP 3430;
• WCDMA/HSDPA/ GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE;
• Supported bands: Quad band 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz & 1900 MHz;
• Tri-band 850 MHz, 1900 MHz & 2100 MHz;
• Bluetooth & WiFi: BT 2.

Hurray! We're glad to inform you that Linux can finally be ported to the first iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch platforms. The first version of the port is very raw and has a lot of the needed stuff missing, but that will be fixed in the future releases.

Here's what currently works:

• Framebuffer driver;
• Serial driver;
• Serial over USB driver;
• Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc.

Access ALP 3.0 and ALP mini are almost ready, but who cares about it now. These two Linux-based systems for PDAs should have been released long before the announcement of Android. Now the train has left...

Anyway, it looks like ALP 3.0 will focus on those fancy, transition effects, while ALP mini is a basic version for normal use. NTT DoCoMo is likely to release a couple of ALP phones in the second half of 2009.

We offer you a collection of live pics of the new Motorola MotoZine ZN5. Check them out!

Motorola MotoZine ZN5 brief specifications:

• 2.5G GSM/GPRS;
  
• Montavista Linux 2.6.1 operating system;
  
• Freescale SCM-A11 processor;
  
• 320×240 display;
  
• 5Mpix camera;
  
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR;

  [Continue reading Live Pics of Motorola MotoZine ZN5]

FCC has approved the rumored Motorola A1600 MING 2 smartphone.

Judging by the available documentation this phone is for the Asian market and is not planned for a stateside release. But if you really want it, there's no problem in buying it outside the U.S. and bringing it back home, as it supports for quad band GSM, which allows for worldwide usage.

Other features include Linux OS, a 3.

Several photos of the rumored Motorola ZN5 cameraphone appeared at the Chinese KeySJ site.

The phone measures 11.8mm thick, has a 5Mpix Kodak-branded camera with xenon flash, “hybrid” keyboard (same as on the ROKR E8), and runs Motorola’s Linux – Java OS. 

That's all for now. Check out the photos.

Three new phones from Motorola may be coming out in the near future, namely the W388, W396, and VA76r models.

The first two are low-end handsets with 128x128 screens, GPRS data, Java support, and VGA cameras.

The VA76r in its turn is more advanced and offers a QVGA screen, Montavista 2.6.10 Linux OS, Freescale ArgonLV processor, 2Mpix cam, and support for HSDPA network.

Here's another handset that was spotted at the FCC site last week.

Apparently, this is the Motorola A810, a new Linux-based touch screen smartphone with the onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognition, along with an FM radio, and tri-band GSM support.

The U.S. release is questionable, though availability details are unknown yet.

Stay tuned for more details.

Looks like long-awaited Motorola Z9 will be launched after all, as it has just been approved by the FCC.

The phone is still not announced, but we hope to see it at CTIA Las Vegas. FCC approval is always a good sign, right?

Just to remind you, Motorola Z9 is a slider cell phone with a 2Mpix camera, GPS, 3G support, and Linux-based OS.

Opera Mobile browser has been updated to version 9.5.

The latest build offers several enhancements, including faster browsing speeds and support for more Web technologies (Widgets, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash and Flash Lite 3), which deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience on a smartphone.

Some of the functions of the Opera Mobile include page content zooming, offline browsing, sending web links or images as SMS/MMS messages and more.