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Samsung Linux-Powered Smartphone Ships In China
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.
But who cares, with over a billion people, some were bound to miss it the first time around.
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Actually, they're profiling different items.
The story from the 15th is from E28. Today is Samsung. The stories are from teh same site, and they're almost the same thing, but not quite.
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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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I'm not so sure. They are at least pointing to different articles.
Here is yesterday's slashdot article
Here is the article it was refering to.
And here is the article that todays slashdot article is refering to.
(Both Articles are at linuxdevices.com but they are different articles.)
Now, the phone in yesterday's article is talking about the E28 manufactured by, well it doesn't say beyond that it's a Chinese company.
This article refers to what looks like a different phone (look at the picture) that is described as the Samsung SCH-i519.
Is Samsung a Chinese company?
The features of the phones look very similar, and I thought this was a dupe at first too, but I think they are refering to different phones, and thus is it really a dupe?
Dollars to doughnuts I get 2 slashdot subscriptions for Xmas. Hope the returns dept. is open on boxing day.
And more importantly, does this mean that I will get the gift of a slashdot subscription?
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No kidding (I guess the four years I worked for Samsung in Korea made me forget, sorry)...and since they have factories overseas, this somehow prevents the phones from being made inside China (as well as Malaysia)? The phones are engineered in Suwon, Korea. Samsung Electronics just completed moving all manuf. lines overseas, except for domestic goods and high-end displays.
When Nokia and Seimens decided to sell mobile phones in China, they had to agree to allow local co-ownership...this meant a two year lead on other firms, such as Samsung, which elected to wait and retain control. This phone is one of the first examples of how that wait has paid off. Samsung is free to make the units their way, without domestic partners inside China.
The Mitac Mio 8380 smartphone has a 200 MHz XScale processor in it. It is relatively bad on power consumption when compared to similar devices. I wonder how this phone in the article will do with a 400 MHz XScale in it. Not trying to be captain obvious but talk time is what a lot of consumers look at when considering a phone.
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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Now the Samsung phone looks quite nice but the form factor may limit its appeal. It's not that big, but the PDA design is an akward shape for your trouser pocket and looks a bit odd next to your face when making a phone call (I'm thinking of O2's XDA here for comparison). As for the Motorola and the E28, is it just me or are they really ugly? I know looks are very subjective, but they can hardly count as sleek and stylish. The material looks cheap for a start - looks like the grey plastic with metal colour sprayed on that wears of on the edges in no time - like several of Motorolas older clamshell phones. They look quite chubby too.
Now don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of Linux on a phone and would love to own one someday, but unless they start producing more varied and more appealing designs I doubt they will be very successful. By comparison most current Symbian phones look nice and come in reasonable sizes. Even Motorala's MS Smarthphone thingy looks alright (looks ok, obviously you wouldn't want one because of the software).
The Samsung SCH i519 runs Qt/Embedded on Linux, and the official SDK is a Linux machine running KDevelop :)
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