Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone

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!

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Post by Garmonidas » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 12:55 AM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #3

Its an Atom processor? Does that mean it can run any x86 OS?

In theory, yes. In practice developers may have to do minor changes. About drivers there is nothing published.

Geeksphone hasn't said officially anything, but unofficially, it is working in make the device compatible with Ubuntu Touch and Windows Phone 8.

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Post by unificador » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:02 AM UTC

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?

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Post by aroch » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:05 AM UTC

I wonder if they'll ship the US. I've wanted an Atom SoC phone for a while

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Post by blahbl4hblahtoo » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:06 AM UTC

More "revolutionary" phones. Wow.

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Post by kimonos » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:11 AM UTC

Cool!

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Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:32 AM UTC

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.