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Beta-testing of Linux mobiles under way
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| Mahesh said Nokia currently ships out about 1.2 billion handsets per year.
| The total market is around 1.5 billion a year which includes the top-end
| models such as Blackberry and the low-end basic phones. This is estimated to
| increase to seven billion handsets within the next five years.
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http://sify.com/finance/it-bpo/fullstory.php?id=14716862
How many 'desktops' are sold every year?
Symbian CEO Says Collaboration With Google Is Possible
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| Broader collaboration between Symbian and Google at either the application or
| operating system level is possible in the future, Symbian's CEO said
| Wednesday.
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| "We have a good relationship with Google," Nigel Clifford said at a Tokyo
| news conference."In fact Symbian was one of the first mobile platforms to put
| their applications such as Google search and maps," he said as he showed his
| mobile phone.
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| Google is about to compete head-to-head with Symbian in the cell phone space
| with the launch of its Android platform and Symbian is reorganizing to meet
| that challenge.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148477/symbian_ceo_says_collaboration_with_google_is_possible.html
Recent:
LiMo and Android take different tacks to capture mobile market with Linux
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| "In a year's time, you'll have a LiMo-based operating system operating on
| tens of millions of phones in Japan," Carlaw said. From there, he said, LiMo
| phones should spread quickly to Europe and North America, driven by carriers
| embracing the ability to quickly brand their phones and enable carrier-driven
| features that can help differentiate them in the market and sell added
| services.
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http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid40_gci1314646,00.html
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.
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| 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
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
Nokia does not get it
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| You better start playing by the rules because else the other companies might
| do it faster than Nokia and you will lose the opportunity. Oh: And just as a
| remind: when you go open source, you must play by the rules by honoring the
| license of the software.
|
| Really, it’s sad to listen to things like this from someone controlling the
| company who owns Trolltech I am sure that the vice-president of companies
| like Red Hat wouldn’t say nonsense like the above. But it’s no surprise
| coming from someone in a company that seems to be absolutely in favor of
| software patents in Europe according to FFII.
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http://edulix.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/nokia-does-not-get-it/
Ari Jaaksi of Nokia Wants to Educate the Linux Community
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| But perhaps the community has some education for Jaaksi and Nokia. Jaaksi
| hosted me at a Nokia dinner in 2000, he's a nice guy and has been interested
| in Linux for a long time. But Nokia's barking up the wrong tree this time,
| because Nokia can do everything it wants with DRM, IPR, and SIM locks without
| bothering the Linux developers about it - and both Nokia and the Linux
| developers will like it better that way. It's surprising that Nokia doesn't
| understand that at this late date.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198
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