Motorola wins $394 million in China Mobile deals
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| Motorola sealed contracts worth $394 million in the first half of the year to
| supply telecommunication gear to China Mobile, the larger of China's two
| wireless carriers, the companies said Monday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6202156.html
Motorola puts Linux on the majority of its phones and Linux phones (60%
recently cited) and Linux phones are very big in China.
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Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay
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| Cell phones traditionally have used proprietary operating systems, fragmented
| even among one manufacturer's products. Motorola and other vendors have also
| opened up phone platforms through the Java and BREW software environments.
| Linux will help to further expand the community of developers for software,
| which is becoming an increasingly important part of mobile phones, said
| Christy Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development at
| Motorola. The company has shipped about 9 million Linux handsets in the past
| four years and is now extending the OS down from smartphones to midrange
| handsets such as the Razr2.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070808/tc_infoworld/90862
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