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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.
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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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.
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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