Samsung Linux-Powered Smartphone Ships In China

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, 2003 @06:11PM from the cross-pollination dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com reports on a new Samsung smartphone shipping in China. According to the article, the Samsung SCH-i519 smartphone supports both Chinese and English, and works with the CDMA2000 1x network of China's #2 wireless provider, Unicom. The device features voice control, a powerful 400MHz XScale PXA255 processor, and a software suite from Mizi Research. Add this to other recent news (a Linux-powered smartphone from China's E28, Japan's NTT DoCoMo has adopted Linux for its new 3G phones, and, of course, Motorola announced the Linux-powered A760 earlier this year), and it starts to look like Linux is picking up steam in the mobile phone market." Update: 12/17 06:16 GMT by S : We previously covered the E28 phone yesterday, though not this new Samsung model.

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China Announces Duplicate Slashdot Post by miracle69 · 2003-12-16 18:13 · Score: 3, Funny

But who cares, with over a billion people, some were bound to miss it the first time around.

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a swipe at the ambiguity of it all... by Anthony+Boyd · 2003-12-16 18:22 · Score: 4, Funny

the Samsung SCH-i519 smartphone supports both Chinese and English

That's it?!?!? I have German relatives, and my wife is Korean! I'm not buying any phone which limits the people I can speak to!

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