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"Olympics" phone runs Linux   
Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 02:34 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde

China Unicom is distributing a Samsung Electronics phone that runs a mobile Linux stack from Mizi Research, a company that will soon be acquired by Wind River. Samsung's "Olympics" phone, also called the SCH-i859, is equipped with a Marvell PXA300 processor and a 2.8-inch touchscreen.

Samsung also offered an Olympics phone powered by Windows Mobile, the SGH-i688. Both phones were customized to access a Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) network, developed in conjunction with integrator Atos Origin. WOW is said to provide realtime schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials.

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