The OS running on the zzzPhone has been a topic of some debate. At first, zzzPhone said they were flirting with Windows. Then John Biggs at CrunchGear scoped out that it wasn't running anything Windows-like. Now zzzPhone is saying they run a proprietary OS and that "our operating system comes installed on our Taiwanese MTK-6226 chips." The MTK 6226 is a midrange Chinese phone CPU that I'm afraid to say I'm not very familiar with, as a US based writer. But actually loading Android on board these things would definitely give them a boost.

As nobody's yet handled a zzzPhone, it's hard to draw any conclusions. I'll tell you when I get mine. Full text of zzzPhone's mass email after the jump.

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Thank you for your interest in zzzPhone and our customized cell phone products.

We are pleased to report that we have received an overwhelming response from the public, and from interested resellers, and are working as fast as possible to pace the incredible demand for our phones and reseller opportunities. For customers that have placed orders for the zzzPhone and want to know the status of their order, We assure you that initial orders are shipping this week from our state of the art factory according to schedule. Please understand that most of the initial orders were placed during the Chinese New Year Holiday, which also happened to coincide with one of the worst nation-wide snowstorms in history.(people dieing, power outages, ect.) Despite this, we are scheduled to ship the majority of ALL current orders this week, and you should receive your zzzPhone shortly (GPS, TV Tuner, and high resolution camera customers must still wait for their phones to be produced per notice when you ordered).

Furthermore, we are working diligently to improve the state of our customer service response system, and have recently hired more staff to address your customer service inquiries. For White label Affiliate members, we have sorted out the issues with the Phase 1 roll-out of the white label program, and have replaced the original I Frame API with a newer JavaScript based API- please login to your administration panel and locate your new code and replace any existing code on your website: both codes should work for now, but as we continue to develop the API, the JavaScript API will be the only supported script.

Please note that we have a number of exciting developments on the immediate horizon for zzzPhone, including a Preferred Affiliate tier for larger and more established White label members, and a major announcement to come later this week regarding a move towards the Google Android Operating System. We feel good about our success thus far, and expect our cell phone revolution to continue its magnificent path forward. We value your business and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced during the BETA launch of our service.