Linux set for more handsets in 2008-Torvalds
,----[ Quote ]
| But last month Web search leader Google said it would offer a software
| platform, built on Linux, to make the Internet work as smoothly on mobile
| phones as it does on computers.
|
| "I haven't been personally involved but it certainly looks like 2008 may be,
| thanks to the Google Alliance, one of the years you will find more widely
| available phones with Linux," Torvalds told Reuters in an interview on
| Friday.
`----
http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSL1478887720071214
Motorola A1600: new Linux-smartphone with touch sensitive display
,----[ Quote ]
| Some Chinese source has posted info and a picture of Motorola A1600
| smartphone (MOTOMING 2). I’d remind you that another Linux-powered smartphone
| with the touch-sensitive display Motorola A1200 (MOTOMING) hit the Chinese
| stores last March and got high popularity.
`----
http://www.latest-mobile.com/articles/motorola/motorola-a1600-new-linux-smartphone-with-touch-sensitive-display_4422
There are far more phones than desktops.
Related:
Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile
,----[ Quote ]
| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech
| Computer Corpto design a Linux
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
`----
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073
Microsoft's vision for universal mobile platform a little blurred
,----[ Quote ]
| Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Mobile is currently not even in the
| second runner in the smartphone operating systems race. Linux, which is
| widely used on mobile devices in China, is second to Symbian with more than
| 13% market share. Windows mobile is a distant third with about 6% share.
`---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15017/1023/
After the Desktop -- What?
,----[ Quote ]
| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
`----
http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
Microsoft's Big Problem in a Small Box
,----[ Quote ]
| Vista is a big operating system that demands monster graphics and dual-core
| processors. But what if the market pines for a whole lot less?
|
| [...]
|
| The mass move to mobile computing is a destabilizing force and harbinger of
| change. Microsoft's position would be better if Vista didn't demand so much
| when the market wants so little.
`----
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/desktop_mobile/microsofts_big_problem_in_a_small_box.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2sg6xy
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
,----[ Quote ]
| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
`----
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
|
|
