Hacking the Motorola A780

I know almost everything has linux or can have linux ported on it these days, but regular old cell phones? Well, Engadget has the details on this…if you can understand what they are saying, you probably use Linux, or know computer terms pretty well.

The Motorola A780 is a Linux based quad-band GSM phone. Kernel hacker Harald Welte has picked up one of these phones and started poking around in the system. The first thing of note is that the phone doesn’t use the typical lightweight tools found in most embedded systems. Instead of busybox or uClibc it uses their heavier counterparts. The phone also has a 2.4 kernel and switching to the 2.6 kernel is a long term goal. Harald has successfully built a compatible toolchain and has netfilter/iptables running on the A780. It should be possible to construct a firewall between the GPRS and the USB connection. Other hackers are working on adding the stock Linux Bluetooth codebase; this may be one of the first phones supporting A2DP stereo headsets.

October 19th, 2005 Posted by David in Motorola, Article at 12:13 pm Comment Now! »
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