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Campaign Asia reports that gadget maker Lenovo will stop marketing smartphones with its own brand name and adopt the Moto label from here on out.
The company acquired Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion in 2014. It previously announced plans to phase out the 'Motorola' name for handsets at the beginning of this year; the new change comes along with a shake-up of the company's leadership.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out for the Moto brand. As Android Police noted, there's a risk of diluting the sensible nomenclature that Moto currently uses to differentiate its high-end, mid-range and budget phones; Lenovo makes a wide variety of handsets, including the first one to feature Google's Project Tango AR tech.
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Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @03:46PM
a handheld standardized wintel or winarm PC with Linux, a removable cellular and wifi modem and a VoIP client?
(Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:35PM
The PocketCHIP is an ARM-based hand-held computer running Linux, and it has a USB port.
/article.pl?sid=16/09/01/0210202 [soylentnews.org]
http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/06/25/review-of-pocketchip-hackable-portable-linux-computer [cnx-software.com]
On another Web forum, people discussed using it in the manner you describe.
https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/practicality-of-c-h-i-p-phone/2279 [nextthing.co]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday November 14 2016, @12:17AM
What I should have written: people discussed the idea of someday using it that way.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 14 2016, @07:22PM
Well, you can't buy one outright because there's no market for that, but it looks like it's pretty easy to assemble something like that yourself, if you don't mind falling back a few generations in portability.
PiPhone - A Raspberry Pi based Cellphone:
https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cellphone/overview [adafruit.com]