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Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
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| McCabe said that the impending release of Google Android would provide
| a "wonderful catalyst" for the breakdown of proprietary software and hardware
| bundles from telcos. Other open source handset software includes the recent
| release of mobile Ubuntu.
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http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39253486,00.htm
Phones are getting more sophisticated [1], so they could replace the desktop
for _some_ tasks. Google knows this, which is why it does not bother with a
desktop O/S. Android is impressive [2] and it could replace Windows as
paradigms shift [3][4].
Nokia recently said that Linux would penetrate phones [6-10] and quickly
shortafter it open-sourced the market leader [5], Symbian.
Recent:
[1] A third of all phones "smart" in five years
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| ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw said, "The market is currently
| dominated by Nokia (52 percent) and Symbian (65 percent). However, the
| coalescence of the framework wars in the Linux environment and the growing
| stature of Windows Mobile will enable new competitors to put pressure on this
| established axis."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8051784786.html
[2] Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone
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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling. "Once you have devices
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said. "[T]here's a
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone
[3] Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
|
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
[4] Symbian forecasts the death of the PC
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| "Desktops PCs are effectively a flatlining commodity," Clifford
| said on Tuesday, while conceding that laptops were eliciting
| "perhaps a bit more" excitement.
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| [...]
|
| "We see loads of keypad experimentation across vendors. That's
| a trend of innovation that will increase until people find
| solutions. It's clear that the numeric keypad has started to
| creak with the introduction of mobile e-mail," Forsyth said,
| describing the competition between various new input
| technologies--such as handwriting recognition and foldable
| keyboards--as "Darwinian."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6126565.html?part=rss&tag=6126565&subj=news
[5] Nokia Buys Rest of Symbian, Will Make Code Open Source
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| But that isn't the only explanation: Competition in the mobile phone market
| is intensifying.
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| "I think Nokia was more worried about the risk that Symbian's structure would
| erode its competitive position," said Blaber.
|
| Symbian is being challenged by a number of new contenders, including the
| open-source operating system from the LiMo Foundation and Google's Android
| platform, which are challenging existing commercial models, according to
| Blaber.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147470/nokia_buys_rest_of_symbian_will_make_code_open_source.html
[6] Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
|
| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
[7] Nokia eyes wider usage of Linux in cellphones
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| "It's going to be terribly important," Nokia's Chief Financial Officer Rick
| Simonson told an investor conference when asked about the role of Linux-based
| tablets.
|
| He said the company has been developing the next generation of Linux-based
| products, which are starting to come to the market.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNewsMolt/idUKL207696020080520
[8] Nokia: Linux to become more popular on Mobile Devices
http://stuff.techwhack.com/3687-nokia-linux
[9] Nokia embraces Ubuntu OS
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| Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices are set to get a port of the Linux operating
| system Ubuntu, following the release of the latest ‘Hardy Heron’ v8.04 of
| Ubuntu this week.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/linux/nokia-embraces-ubuntu-os--330238
[10] Nokia adds Qt to Maemo
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| The announcement, first posted on Apr. 15, may be available here, with a
| Google cache here. Meanwhile, a community developer has already managed to
| port KDE to Nokia N8xx tablets. And, Nokia is actively porting Ubuntu to ARM.
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| All in all, it looks like device and desktop software will continue to
| converge.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5207224816.html
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