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Samsung Linux-Powered Smartphone Ships In China

Posted by timothy on 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.

6 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Dupe, dupe dupa dupe... by Al-Hala · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Another bloody dupe. It's even LISTED in the related links channel...

  2. Slashdotted by BSDevil · · Score: -1, Redundant

    If we read about it two days ago, here's hoping it won't get Slashdotted...

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  3. Yes, it's a dupe. by Soko · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Posted 2 days ago here.

    Perhaps there's a time-loop in the "Mysterious Future" that causes subscribers to miss duplicates and not e-mail the editors when they're about to waste yet more bandwidth? Sheesh.

    Dollars to doughnuts I get 2 slashdot subscriptions for Xmas. Hope the returns dept. is open on boxing day. /troll mode off

    Soko

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  4. that`s poor !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    where is the WLAN support?
    let`s hope someone else "make things better" ;-)

  5. Like Bill said; Linux is Un-American by joey+shabadu · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Even more proof Linux is for Commies ! Real Americans know making something not-for-profit IS FOR THE ENEMY! Just ask Darl.

  6. I vaguely remember something... by sirReal.83. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... which I thought was insightful at the time. I still think it is. Something about monocultures... and how they're vulnerable to... something...

    OK commence modding me down. Just wanted to point something out to my fellow linux users/zealots. Would it not have been possible to put OpenBSD on this trinket?