Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from the Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software.

The world's second-largest mobile phone maker Samsung, which has used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched a new SGH-i800 phone model running on LiMo software at the Mobile World Congress trade show, while LG Electronics showed a prototype phone LG LiMo.

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