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Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone

by Robby2012 on 2/20/14, 11:11 PM with 38 comments

  • by 51Cards on 2/21/14, 3:42 AM

    This may be a little OT... but if you want to win me over on a geek focused device... i.e. power users... 3000mAh battery minimum. I know it's not the core intent but personally that grabs my attention as a power user just as much.
  • by bdg on 2/21/14, 12:33 AM

    I'll have my phone soon, the thing just left spain last night.

    I'm very excited to have it in my hands and helping me hack on FoxOS after what feels like a year of delays since the peak+

  • by unificador on 2/21/14, 1:02 AM

    I just bought one and I'm excited. As a developer it is wonderful to have one device 2 operating systems for test my apps. About dual boot there is nothing clear. Any idea?
  • by Garmonidas on 2/21/14, 12:48 AM

    I played with this phone days ago and it's amazing, really fast. Android and FirefoxOS works smoothly. I would even say it surpasses the Nexus 4 performance!
  • by superkuh on 2/21/14, 5:24 AM

    Okay, but does the baseband processor have direct memory access to the system RAM? If so, it is useless from a security standpoint.
  • by fphhotchips on 2/21/14, 2:18 AM

    Is it just me, or is there no LTE support here? Seems like a largish oversight.
  • by blueskin_ on 2/21/14, 1:17 PM

    Looks interesting, but I think they should have focused more on the spec.

    Although, I definitely like the SDcard slot and real buttons rather than stupid onscreen ones.

  • by sergiotapia on 2/21/14, 1:32 AM

    Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone.

    Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.

  • by xerophtye on 2/21/14, 7:20 AM

    Aren't these the guys that produced the Peak+ etc? I can't seem to locate those devices on their site anymore
  • by lnanek2 on 2/21/14, 3:05 AM

    Not really true. I know quite a few devices in industry currently sold that support Windows CE or Android as desired.
  • by leoc on 2/21/14, 4:37 AM

    What, only one SIM slot, really?
  • by aroch on 2/21/14, 1:05 AM

    I wonder if they'll ship the US. I've wanted an Atom SoC phone for a while
  • by ForHackernews on 2/21/14, 12:46 AM

    Its an Atom processor? Does that mean it can run any x86 OS?
  • by kimonos on 2/21/14, 1:11 AM

    Cool!
  • by greatsuccess on 2/21/14, 7:16 AM

    Total entropy, like the 20 variants of linux that cant establish a wifi connection.

    Please save me from your tower of phone-babble. I dont care, and Im not going to spend time in your insane bouncy house of doom.

    Fuck off.