Carriers and manufacturers form pact to push mobile Linux

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jun 15th 2006 at 1:40PM

Yeah, we've heard it before, but they mean it this time. Carriers Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo have teamed up with Motorola, Samsung, NEC, and Panasonic to succeed where others have failed, busting out a common Linux-based smartphone platform and sharing costs and R&D resources along the way. Besides unifying the fragmented mobile Linux community behind a single open platform, the group's goal is to see the light of day in a production phone before the end of 2007, but let's be honest -- the project won't be considered a success unless the joint venture can produce a popular, well-known platform that can scrap with the Symbians and the Windows Mobiles of the world. Hey, Access PalmSource, you guys paying attention?

[Via Mobiledia]

Filed under: Software, Motorola, Samsung, Vodafone, Linux, NTT DoCoMo, ALP

Tags: alp, linux, motorola, nec, ntt docomo, NttDocomo, panasonic, samsung, vodafone

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korey @ Jun 15th 2006 2:25PM

YESSSS Linux rocks and First Comment cant wait for a linux based smartphone with palm functionality

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