Penguins on the phone

[mdlbear]

Mobile technology companies plan joint Linux platform (Ars Technica)

A group of mobile phone companies including Vodafone, DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung NEC, and Panasonic, have announced plans to collaboratively develop an open, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. In an attempt to decrease market fragmentation, benefit from community involvement, and avoid the high costs associated with proprietary mobile software solutions, the prominent mobile technology companies hope to facilitate the construction of a complete platform for mobile software development including an API specification, a complete reference implementation, and a comprehensive set of associated development tools.

Comments

[mithriltabby]

Now if they can throw a software-defined radio in there...

[mdlbear]

Heh! Don't hold your breath -- that's the last thing they want.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I've heard some reviews of the new Motorola Trio type phone for Verizon and basically they say the phone is cool, but the M$ OS sucks. Things that are easy on a Trio aren't on the Motorola beast. The OS is bloated and complicated where it doesn't need to be, making the phone unpleasant to use.

No wonder they want to change OSes. All that money to M$ and they get a piece of garbage that makes everyone love Palm OS even more.

[mdlbear]

Hopefully by the time I'm ready to switch phones (can't get any more discounts until my contract is up next year sometime) there will be a decent selection and maybe cheaper data rates.