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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. Re:Our little baby is all grown... hey wait a seco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    once you get your head out of your butt you're going to see that this isn't that much of an issue anymore. 10 years ago? sure. but today it's a much different market.

    as for the mod fanbois out there. mod me down, suckers. the truth is that linux is just bringing up the rear after the innovators have made all the rules. much where it belongs.

  3. informa7ive maremare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I see the same obsessive.s and the

  4. 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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