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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I love it when hordes of whores start shouting by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-16 18:50 · Score: 0, Insightful

..."dupe" - lets me know which ones never RTFA, or are too stupid to UTFA
Anyone already demanded source? by SpaghettiPattern · 2003-12-16 21:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

C'mon there must be at least one ./er living in China with enough dough to buy a phone and immediately ask for source code!

Just to be a pain in the butt, out of sheer interest, out of boredom or to actually exercise the GPL rights,.. Whatever reason.

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