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Greed kills: Why smartphone lock-in will fail and open source win
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| The competitive dynamic between
| Linux/Android and OS X can be understood in
| the same way. OS X is playing a control
| game and Android a ubiquity one. We can
| expect the outcome to be the same: when the
| bazaar meets the walled garden, the walls
| will eventually come down, crushing the
| life out of the garden.
|
| This is why Symbian is now open-source in
| spite of having no inheritance from Unix-
| land; its backers have figured out that a
| control strategy collects short-term gains
| over a ubiquity strategy but simply cannot
| compete in the longer term against open-
| source Android and open-source Maemo. Apple
| will learn this, to its cost, too. Because
| Steve Ballmer may be an evil maniac, but
| when he yelled âdevelopers, developers,
| developers!â, he was right. In the war for
| market-share, allies are better for your
| long-term prospects than walls, and
| ubiquity will always eventually triumph
| over control.
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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1781
The Linux Box in My Pocket
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| My wife and I picked up new 'phones' last
| week. Penny wanted a phone with a slide out
| keyboard so she would be able to text more
| easily. I wanted a Droid.
|
| The Droid is a 4 inch machine running a
| slim Linux Kernel called Android. The whole
| thing is orchestrated by Google. The
| machine comes with 16 gigs of flash memory,
| a 5 megapixel camera, audio player that
| plays several different formats of music
| including MP3s, GPS, 3.7 inch touch screen,
| slide out keyboard, WiFi, wireless
| broadband, a very sophisticated (free)
| software installation framework, and, oh
| yeah, a phone.
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http://johndembowski.com/2010/03/linux-box-in-my-pocket.html
Cell phones in the classroom
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| Teachers from the pilot also tell me that
| their instruction has changed since they
| started using cell phones in class.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/cell-phones-in-classrooms.html
Recent:
Nokia N900 review
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| Perfect for Linux developers with deep
| pockets, but despite great performance and
| an intuitive OS, it's not suitable for
| consumers who want a wide selection of
| apps and easy updates.
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http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/smartphones/276172/nokia-n900
Nokia N900 coming to retailers in April
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| Nokia has announced its Linux-based
| smartphone, the N900, will be available in
| Australia through retailers in April, but
| stopped short of announcing any agreements
| with carriers.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/338189/nokia_n900_coming_retailers_april/?fp=2&fpid=1
MVTec embedded software runs on Nokia mobile phone
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| MVTec claims that tests have proven that
| image-processing applications based on
| HALCON can be successfully built for the
| Nokia N900. Applications are first
| developed with HALCON running on a PC. The
| exported code is then compiled for the
| Nokia N900 to allow the application to run
| on this mobile platform and access the
| full functionality of HALCON.
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http://www.tmworld.com/article/451305-MVTec_embedded_software_runs_on_Nokia_mobile_phone.php
n900, thoughts
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| Open stacks based on Linux, Qt and similar
| tools are in a much better position simply
| because more people and companies can
| participate and therefore create a larger pool
| of shared resources that is hard to impossible
| for a closed platform to match without joining
| in. (Let's not forget that S60 is opening up,
| either, and bringing Qt along with it too.) I
| don't know what the ultimate role Maemo itself
| will play in all of this, but in an open
| ecosystem it doesn't need to be IKotH to be
| successful either, anymore than any of the
| Linux distributions need to be IKotH in the
| server space for server side Linux to
| flourish.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/02/n900-thoughts.html
Review: Nokia N900
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| Nokiaâs N900 is not a phone, OK. Well, it is a
| phone, in that it has a SIM slot, and you can
| use it to make voice calls. And it supports
| HSDPA and has a front facing camera so you can
| make video calls. But actually it is more a
| mini computer than a mobile phone.
|
| The N900 runs a new operating system, Maemo 5,
| which is based on Linux and so is open to
| application development by third parties. No,
| Symbian isnât going away, and no, it doesnât
| look as though Nokia will push out a slew of
| Maemo-toting devices during 2010, but yes,
| Nokia does think there is a place for very
| high end, very capable mini computers with
| telephony. And the N900 is its way of showing
| us that.
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http://www.smartphonedaily.co.uk/reviews/review-nokia-n900/
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