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Re: Linux-based iPhone Clone Produced in China, Beats iPhone Functionality

In article <1226764.WkYkoBsqFi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/e7e48a137b144110vgnvcm1000004...
> >>
> >> Runs Linux, but nobody really knows or counts it.
> >>
> > 
> > 1. Are you sure it runs Linux?...there are some reports it's a WinCe
> > model
> > 
> > 2. I hate the iPhone because it's a closed system that cannot run
> > third party Java apps. This Meizu phone obviously can.
> 
> Two separate reports (and independent ones) said with confidence that it was
> Linux and I think one was even specific, saying that it was Motorola's
> Linux/Java stack.

The specs posted to their forums say Win CE 6.0:

<http://meizu.com/bbs/dispbbs.asp?boardID=22&ID=505281&page=1>

<http://en.meizu.com/userforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=704&FID=12&PR=3>

Considering that the photos of the device show a prominent IE logo on 
the "internet" button, and a Windows icon on the main screen, and that 
they are known to use Windows in many of their other products, this 
seems quite believable.

-- 
--Tim Smith

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