Samsung has begun shipping a new Linux-powered smartphone in China. 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 Linux OS and 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.

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