AT&T Quickfire Release Date Leaked

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The AT&T Quickfire will be heating up the competition with the T-Mobile Sidekick when it is released on November 10 this year. This tri-band cell phone will only cost $99 with a 2-year contract—$299 without—and doesn't seem like a Windows Mobile phone, or any other OS we've ever seen. The Quickfire includes a touch screen, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3G, a music player, and GPS, and will come in orange, lime and silver.

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—and doesn't seem like a Windows Mobile phone, or any other OS we've ever seen.

Rumor has it that this is actually the UTStarcom "Knick". (Renamed from one lame marketing name to another). UTStarcom has, in the past, used Linux to power its phones. (Google UTStarcom DV007).

So it is possible, that at least at some level this is running Linux. I would sure like to know, and the GPL police may want to research this further too.