MotoRokr Z6 (formerly MotoRizr Z6)

Motorola MotoRokr Z6 (Click for details)

Motorola announced the MotoRizr Z6 in January, touting it as the first Linux phone to support all of Microsoft’s Windows Media technologies. Now known as the MotoRokr Z6, the phone officially launches today, with global roll-out expected over the next several weeks.

The Z6 has a unique slider form factor aimed at clearly delineating modality. In other words, “Closed, it’s an MP3 player. Open, it’s a phone,” Dale said.

Dale also called the Z6 “Our first true Linux/Java product,” presumably a reference to the device’s monolithic processor architecture, on which a real-time enabled version of Linux may provide both control- and data-plane functionality; earlier Motorola phones used VRTX or other real-time OSes on separate baseband processors to handle signal processing and run the cellular modem.

Other touted features include:

• PC song sync at 3 sec/song — three times faster than Sony Walkman phones
• Song storage on removable 2GB SD/MMC cards
• Simple music management using Windows Media Player
• X9 stereo bluetooth headphones included in European package

Lots more about the Z6 can be found in our earlier coverage, here.

Link back to original article at LinuxDevices…

I don’t know if I just had my eyes open to moblog possibilities this weekend or if iThings are really taking over the world, but it seems that there are way too many iThings out there now-a-days.

I found the iFan at Wal-Mart. When searching the web I found info about it as a user submitted stupid gadget at Gizmodo. Awesome.

Shopping at Best Buy over the weekend, I found more iThings.

First, the iWash 

  Next, the iDry.

Apparently these are intelligent laundry machines by Frigidaire.

The last item I saw really wasn’t so shocking. It’s a take off the iDog and manufactured by the same company; the iCY. It’s cute and I want it because it would be good for my penguin collection even if I refuse to give up my Creative mp3 player and follow the trendy iPod people.

OGG support + Compat w/ “Linux
� from Kernel 2.4.x” + 12 GB Flash + USB Mass Storage Device + Gapless playback + FLAC support + Looks hot as hell = FLIPPIN SWEET ……. Show your support for hardware vendors that are friendly to Linux customers and FOSS codecs!!!

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Do you have money to spend, but don
�t know what to spend it on? Today we reach out to help simplify the system build purchasing process with two Intel Core 2 Duo based systems built to fit different budgets. And both are overclocking monsters to boot!

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A new Linux based MP3 player is an open source computer in your pocket.

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There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy - but a lot of time you actually don’t own it, you can’t improve upon it, you can’t share it or make it better, you certainly can’t post the plans, schematics and source code either. Here’s the only open source gift guide you see this year and it’s from MAKE Magazine

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Every iPod owner passes through seven distinct phases, this illustrated guide depicts the journey all iPod owners must undertake.