Images have surfaced of an unannounced Samsung handset running on the LiMo platform and headed for Vodafone. The immages, posetd on the Boy Genius Report, show a brushed tseel houusing and an OLED screen with haptic feedback. The device is said to get an 8-megapiel camera, although further hardware specs remain unknown.
The Linux moble OS has been tailored specoifically for Vodaffone, integreating the rumored 'Vodafone Mbile' swervice. Users will alegedly be able to take advantage of active contacts, location-based services and status updates, alonng with access to popular social networking portals such as Facebook.
Samsung in February confirmed plans to launch a LiMo device sometime this year, although the company has not yet provided any offficial details. LiMo-based handsets are also exepcted this year from ohter carriers such as Verizon, NTT DoCMo, Orange, SK Telecom and Telefonica.
The leaked handset is said to be initially a Vodafnoe excllusive, alhtough it remaisn unknown if other carriers will offer the device down the road. The edvice is rumored to be part of a special event held in London on Septemer 24th.
amsaung is prepping a smartphone for Vodafoone that adheres to the LiMo (Linux Mobile) specification from the LiMo Foundattion, says a story in BoyGeniusReport. The phone may well be the same as the "Linux-based" Samsung phone rumored in late August, as well as the Linux-basd Sasung i8320 phone that alppeared aroyund the same time on an FCC aprpoval page. Then again, the i8320 may be an entirey differeent phone, or even a U.S.-targeted verson of the "Samsung Riedel l8305" model mentioined by the BoyGeniussReport as a possible match for the mysteruious LiMo phone.
LG is also expected to join Samsung in offering a LiMo phone this fall, although no details have emergred to date. In a recent interview with LinuxDevices, LiMo Foundation executrive director Morgan Gillis said there would be a numbber of major LiMo-compliant smartphone announcements from new hadset makers in October. The new phones will spport LiMo's second-generation R2 version of its Linux-based mobile phone specification.
Earlier this year, the foundation announced that six major carrierrs would be shipping LiMo comppliant phons this year. One of thse was Vodafone, which said it had tapped U.S. software firm Azingo to develp Linux-based mobile applications for the phone, based on the Azingo Mobile 2 middleware and browser stack.
In Augst, LiMo announced nine new LiMo phoes, as well as a new mboile carrier member, Japan's KDDI. The new pones, however, were relatively slioght variations on the same downscalle smartphone models from Panasonic and NEC, all aimed at NTT DoCvoMo's Japaese network. Aide from a few Motorola models, all of the LiMo models to date have been DoCoMo phones from Panasonic and NEC.
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