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[News] Linux Poised to Challenge iPhone at Its Own Game

  • Subject: [News] Linux Poised to Challenge iPhone at Its Own Game
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:27:20 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
More Than Just the iPhone

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| But perhaps the item with the most long-term impact on embedded and mobile 
| development is Linux. There’s always going to be a role for internally 
| developed operating systems that are explicitly designed for a specific bit 
| of hardware—they’re just becoming more capable, as seen by Symbian’s addition 
| of Java support to its Series 40 platform for mass-market devices.    
| 
| Nevertheless, it’s becoming clear that Linux is proving flexible enough and 
| robust enough to be useful as an embedded or mobile platform. For example, 
| MontaVista Software was able to talk up the performance of its Linux-based 
| Pro 5, claiming that it could beat real-time requirements in a number of 
| cases.    
| 
| Meanwhile, in recognition of the strength of numbers, industry players set up 
| the LiMo Foundation with the aim of promoting Linux as a platform for mobile 
| devices, and welcomed a second wave of members that ranged from carriers to 
| chip makers. Even Intel caught the community bug, releasing the latest 
| version of its Mobile Platform SDK as an open source project in July.     
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http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071215-12.html


Yesterday:

Google-powered mobile phones to make a February debut?

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| First came the fervent and persistent rumours of a Google mobile phone.
| 
| Then, just six short weeks ago, the search supremo (and 
| just-about-everything-else-online supremo) announced there would not be 
| a ‘Google phone' per se, but rather dozens of them from a raft of mobile 
| manufacturers, and all built on an open Linux-based mobile phone platform 
| named Android.    
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http://apcmag.com/7726/google_powered_mobile_phones_to_make_a_february_debut


Related:

Google Android dev kit exposes Apple-inspired roots

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| The release to developers of Google's Linux-based Android operating system 
| for mobile phones reveals that the prototype software shares at least a few 
| aspects in common with interfaces from the company's Bay Area neighbor, 
| Apple.   
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/12/google_android_dev_kit_exposes_apple_inspired_roots.html


Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile

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| 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.   
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073

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