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Mobile Linux Challenges Windows Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the here-have-a-site-license dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Taking a page from Microsoft's playbook, MontaVista today announced an embedded Linux platform aimed specifically at mobile phones. 'Mobilinux' is based on a 2.6 kernel with real-time and power-management enhancements, and targets 'feature-phones' as well as the higher-end devices targeted by Microsoft with its Windows Mobile for Smartphones offering."

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  1. Re:Mobile Phones Feature Musts by freitasm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Infineon, Trolltech and Samsung introduced a reference design back in February.

    Motorola not only is already selling Linux-based Smartphones since September 2004, but in addition to that they also licence Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to synchronise with Exchange Servers.

  2. Re:Mobile Phones Feature Musts by freitasm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmmm. There's an open standard: SyncML. There are SyncML clients for different mobile platforms and desktop/laptop OS. It's implemented and distributed on Symbian OS, it is part of Bluetooth OBEX, it's available as a tool for Windows Mobile.