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Linux Crashes the Mobile Party

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-not-that-kind-of-crash dept.

superglaze writes "ZDNet.co.uk has a fairly comprehensive feature on the progress being made by Linux for cellphones. Seems a pretty consumer deal for now, but there are some interesting hints of Linux eventually challenging Windows Mobile and Symbian in business use. The article also seems to suggest that the two big groups pushing mobile Linux could be amenable to a merger due to common interests."

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  1. Mod me down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am a troll.

  2. OpenMoko is not your savior. by StarKruzr · · Score: 0, Troll

    OpenMoko is crap. The UI is horrid and shows no signs of getting better, development has no direction and never will, the hardware is an order of magnitude crappier than iPhone's (no capacitive multitouch touchscreen, no WiFi, no 2.5G or 3G WAN).

    Someone with vision needs to take over OpenMoko, or it will never manage to drive any kind of change in the cell phone market. The biggest problem is that selling a carrier on a device that puts as much power in the hands of the consumer as something like OpenMoko would LIKE to do is next to impossible: witness Apple's lockdown of the iPhone. If it weren't for the application lock we would have an incredibly powerful device on our hands (mine is jailbroken and will remain on the 1.0.2 firmware until EOL of the device if necessary), but Apple and AT&T couldn't have that, could they?

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