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Linux to power Google GPhone?

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Google's first mobile phone will run a Linux operating system on a Texas Instruments "Edge" chipset, and will likely ship to T-Mobile and Orange customers in the Spring of 2008, according to unconfirmed reports. "GPhone" call minutes and text messages reportedly will be funded by mobile advertising. News of the so-called "GPhone" or "G-Phone" broke quietly about two weeks ago in the island nation of Singapore, where Jennifer Tan of Reuters subsidiary Anian Research filed a report on July 12.

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You can also ask how many that double boots Windows and Linux...Or Mac OS X and Linux. Another question that pops up is how many keeps Vista when they purchase a new computer. Or do they overwrite it whith Windows XP or some other Linux variant. Thats why i think that the Linux desktop base is larger then anyone is expecting. If it was to large then Microsoft would get another spike in there commin. Because Mac OS X is getting bigger too.

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