Geeksphone is now taking orders for the Geeksphone Revolution that runs on both Android and Firefox OS. Revolution is officially up for sale on the Geeksphone store for €222, with worldwide shipping available.
Since November last year, the Spanish manufacturer has been teasing its dual-booting Revolution smartphone, with a steady flow of details about the device.
The Geeksphone Revolution with a 4.7-inch IPS LCD Multi-touch display, is powered by a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z2560 dual-core processor, and packs 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a microSd card slot for 32GB expandable storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera with Flash LED, a 1.3-megapixel front camera, and a 2000mAh battery.
The device comes with G-Sensor, E-Compass, Light and Proximity Sensors and supports HSPA networks, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. The Spanish phone maker also claims to support the new Revolution with over the air software updates.
Revolution replaces the Peak+, another Firefox OS handset from the same manufacturer that was showcased at last year’s MWC. The new Revolution wraps the Geeksphone’s proprietary MultiOS technology, a simple “1-touch system” for switching between operating systems – Android and Mozilla’s Firefox OS.
Geeksphone Revolution, by default ships with Android OS, but the users can “seamlessly” switch to Firefox OS or any other operating system (potentially other supported OS like Sailfish OS), indicating that the smartphone is not restricted to only Android and Firefox OS.
Firefox OS, still being a newbie in the mobile platform market, gives a very little in terms of pressing reasons for the users to have it as an option. But for developers looking out to try Mozilla’s open source, Geeksphone Revolution will probably be a pretty good option.
All Linux based OS’s will be capable of booting on all ARM hardware too. Every manufacturer is working on the Xen Bare Metal Hypervisor Project. Google, Samsung, ARM, Intel and so many others are getting with Hardware Virtualization. That’s where you are Booting a Host OS (in this case Android) as well as a Guest OS with full hardware support simultaneously.
Samsung has a demo video out months (if not a year) ago on Google Nexus booting two Android installs concurrently and running two simultaneous sessions of Angry Birds, one on each install!
So the Real Revolution hasn’t arrived yet. That’ll come when Samsung brings out it’s 64bit smartphone, running Tizen (that can run Android Apps and it’s own HTML5 Web .wgt Apps) along with Android on 4GB LPDDR4 memory and also be able to run Apps in VM’s as Guest OS’s! Security is 10 times better when you run your OS’s sandboxed totally away from the hardware, yet with total direct driver support of Type 1 Hardware Virtualization on ARMv8 chips!!!