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Sporkman
August 11th, 2009, 01:47 PM
Panasonic, NEC unveil 9 new Linux phones

* By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent - Tue Aug 11,
HELSINKI (Reuters) -

Panasonic Corp and NEC Corp unveiled nine new cell phone models on Tuesday that run the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux group LiMo said.

The focus of the cell phone market has been shifting to software development since Google Inc and Apple Inc entered the mobile market in the past two years, with phone vendors and operators increasingly looking for open source alternatives such as LiMo to cut costs...

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090811/tc_nm/us_linux_mobile_2

Arup
August 11th, 2009, 01:49 PM
My business will now go to either of them from today onward.

Colonel Kilkenny
August 11th, 2009, 02:11 PM
Panasonic, NEC, etc. are so small when it comes to mobile phones that LiMo means nothing. And if it is only NTT Docomo who is getting those phones the meaning is even smaller...

Nokia has Symbian which is open source (or is opening as we speak) and Maemo which is Linux. If something is going to push Linux to mobile it is Nokia + Maemo combination.