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Smartphone mania
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| Linux devices emerge, while iPhone suffers growing pains
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| In the meantime, the LiMo Foundation (a competitor to the Google-led OHA) has
| introduced seven new phones made by Motorola, Panasonic and Samsung that run
| its mobile Linux OS, bringing the total number of LiMo-based handsets to 20.
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| The mobile Linux phone frenzy kicks off a whole new era of open-access
| phones, whereby devices no longer have to be inextricably tied to a
| particular carrier’s network or that carrier’s application development
| agenda.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2008/090108wireless1.html?hpg1=bn
iPhone (+contract) is expensive. It addresses the needs of the west and targets
just a wealthy market at times of recession. It's the same with Macs, which is
why GNU/Linux is booming in developing/emerging markets.
Related:
Related:
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| Around 98% of the world's CPUs manufactured are used in embedded systems.
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http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/132
Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html
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