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Linux - coming soon to a cellphone near you!

Posted Jun 15, 2006 at 11:51AM by Kyle M. Listed in: Cellular News, Cellular Software Tags: Linux, Panasonic, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo
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Tux & CellFour of the world's top cellphone manufacturers have teamed up with the hope of developing a brand spanking new Linux platform for use on cellphones. NEC, Motorola, Panasonic and Samsung have all joined together on the new project in cooperation with  mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone. Plans for the development of this open source software are expected to be unveiled sometime this week, and will include launching a brand new organisation dedicated to completing this task, dubbed the 'Linux foundation'.


The Linux platform will be used to develop common applications and features, which will span across the mobile handsets of the four manufacturers. Motorola have already sold 5 million handsets with a Linux-based platform in Asia, with Linux-based handsets such as the Rokr E2 music phone expected to hit European shores soon, with no word on an American launch.

The six companies forming the foundation believe that by working together, they can build a common platform that will allow them to make new products much faster and cheaper than they've done in the past. Mobile operators benefit from a common Linux platform, too, because it means they can test and certify one operating system instead of several.

This may also open up the opportunity for other standalone coders to make their own common applications for the Linux-based system. No longer will we have bad quality Java-based applications available from home coders, but whole distributions that will be useful, easy to edit, and will be available to many makes of phone.

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