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Motorola E895 is the latest Linux phone released, after Motorola announced on Friday, July, 2005, their plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open-source operating system to midrange phones.

To use Linux is their midrange phones are the second wave since Motorola began selling Linux-powered mobile phones in 2003 in high-end phones. Motorola expects to change that as software makers slim down Linux and hardware makers bulk up cell phone computing power, Chin said.

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The E895 is a flip-phone design that uses a version of Linux from MontaVista Software, said Cheryln Chin, vice president for Motorola mobile phone marketing. Motorola expects to begin shipping it in Asia in the fourth quarter of the year and in other parts of the globe after that.

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With the E895, Motorola has pushed the OS into midrange phones, and Linux should reach mass-market phones “probably in late 2006 or 2007,” Chin said. More than half of Motorola’s mobile phones will use Linux within 18 to 24 months, she predicted.

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Motorola is a lead developer of Java Mobile Edition (J2ME), but the company sees room for improvement in power consumption and performance, Chin said. That is why Linux is chosen for lower-level functions such as power and memory management and basic software functionalities.

The E895 can play MP3 files and can accommodate up to 512MB of removable TransFlash memory. Its 1.3-mexapixel digital camera can be used for photos or video. And it’s equipped with Bluetooth networking technology for synchronizing data and using wireless earpieces. However, at the moment Motorola didn’t release expected prices yet.

Summary features of Motorola E895 :-

• Feature rich flip phone design with an internal tri-band antenna
• Integrated 1.3 megapixel camera with full screen viewfinder, photo indicator light and 8x digital zoom
• Video capture and playback, 3GPP streaming and the ability to view files as they download
• Next generation Linux and Java software
• Bluetooth wireless technology
• Up to 10 MB of embedded memory; TransFlashâ„¢ removable memory for up to 512 MB of optional memory
• Speaker independent voice recognition to make calls
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