Nokia makes the mobile 'a full member of the internet'
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| Nokia may be the most unlikely convert to the open internet model, but it
| is becoming one of the most enthusiastic.
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| Fresh from placing key aspects of its Series 60 software architecture,
including the all-important mobile browser, into the open source process,
| it has now ported the Linux-based Apache web server, which powers many of
| the world's websites, to its Symbian Series 60 platform.
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| As Palmsource has been doing, but on a grander scale, Nokia is melding its
| own operating systems with enhanced browsers and interfaces and the world
| of Linux, to create products that should take it into new customer bases
| beyond the traditional mobile operators.
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| At a current 384Kbps on the uplink, HSDPA cannot support serious internet
| functions such as self-hosting and web serving, and the Apache product
| would sit better with a Linux/Wi-Fi mobile device than a traditional phone.
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| Symbian is highly tuned for mobile phones, but not necessarily for a
| wide variety of "things" that might be used as internet devices. In
| this scenario, Linux is a more logical choice, and Nokia has already made
| key moves to support the open source OS it once shunned for the
| compromises it enforces on the cellphone platform.
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| Once Nokia looks beyond the confines of the conventional cellphone, there
| is far more momentum behind Linux in terms of broad platform support ?
| from PCs to consumer devices ? developer interest and real openness,
| making it the most likely alternative to Windows as a universal system
| spanning the whole range of portable wireless devices that will emerge in
| the coming years for business and leisure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/12/nokia_pc_techniques/
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