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I was doing some Palm application development few years ago. At that time I brought along a PDA everyday, fully enjoy the feel of productivity —- just the feel, I didn’t ever actually fully utilize the tool. At times I did enjoy the convenience of stuffing lots of e-books into it, so I always get something to read on the road.

May be it’s the lack of multimedia functions of the PDA I owned made me step back. Now my hand is itchy again. I am looking for a new mobile phone, and wondering, why not getting a PDA phone?

Some web surfing and googling show Treo is possibly out of my budget. And Pocket PC is out of my choice because I don’t like my electronic device all attached with Windows. Wow…thing like Palm LifeDrive and Nokia 770 just looks awesome, so attrative :~~) . But they are also much over the budget :(, and, they are not phone.

Motorola is producing a series of Linux phone, like the A728 and A732. Linux phone seem to be a good fit for my PDA phone choice. It has the OS I wanted — at least I knew a little of it, and I could have done some hacking with it. And then I found more hacking stuff with Motorola Linux phone, e.g. Hacking the Motorola A780. Hacker Harald Welte form a project OpenEZX for Motorola EZX phone platform, mainly the A780, E680 and E680i. There are either toolchain and customized made image to load and overwrite the existing OS on the phone.

That sounds good. E680i is available in Malaysia and seem cost around RM1200 at the mean time. I am looking forward to it.