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Linux powered Moto Ming (Motorola A1200) was launched in India two weeks back. It’s one of the latest Linux based Moto phones. Phone looks awesome and is too delicate to handle. After beeing in my hands for two weeks it has already got a few scratches . 2 MP camera, Smooth rubber coated body, translucent cover, bussiness card reader, touch screen and really great sound quality make this phone even more must to have. Ming in chinese means crystal clear and bright, this phone proves the meaning. J2ME applications are easily installable, and Yahoo! has promised to launch “Y! Go” for Motorola phones too.

When I bought a Linksys WRT54G Version 5 around 10 months back I was hittng my head against the wall after learning that it runs on VxWorks instead of Linux. The playground I expected was lost. But Thanks to Jeremy who has written a VxWorks Killer and nicely documented it, I flashed my unit’s firmware with Linux based dd-wrt micro. Kudos to him, there is so much to look inside.

Nokia 3230 is the latest contribution of the gadget bazaar to my pockets. I exchanged this with my old Nokia 6610 and got a pretty nice exchange price. This phone has almost every feature which one can think of, though it misses some. Blue-tooth, GPRS, MP3 Player, FM Radio, 1.3 Mega Pixel (Effectively 1.23 Mega Pixels) camera with night mode, excellent themes’ support to name a few. It’s got nice sound quality with ultra high volume of the hands-free. Nokia has improved the FM sound output quality with this handset, it’s simply amazing, stereo with pretty good bass also. Comes with 32 MB memory card which can be extended up to 1 Gigs. Low picture quality in darker sites, mono mp3 player output, slow animation rendering are the cons.
If you can live with the mono mp3 output, small crappy keypad and a bit slow rendering then this Nokia thingy can be a nice option for you.