Nokia could give Linux a spin in high-end mobiles

by Darren Murph posted Dec 3rd 2008 at 3:29AM

To anyone even remotely familiar with Nokia's history, this tidbit won't come as a surprise at all. In fact, we've been hearing "Linux" and "Nokia" in the same sentence for years. At Nokia World in Barcelona -- the same place where the almighty N97 (pictured) was unveiled -- Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia's markets unit, informed Reuters that "in the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones." Potentially more interesting was his followup line: "I don't see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo." Quite frankly, we'd be entirely more interested if this was some revolutionary epiphany, but it's basically just more of the same song and dance. Now, if an N98 pops out next month with a freakishly awesome and nimble mobile variant of Ubuntu, well -- that's a horse of a different color.

[Via LinuxDevices]

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Nokia, Linux

Tags: Linux, Nokia, nokia world, NokiaWorld, open source, open-source, OpenSource, operating system, OperatingSystem, os

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superhobo @ Dec 3rd 2008 3:51AM

They bought Symbian and now they're going to use Linux? ;_;

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efekt @ Dec 3rd 2008 8:52AM

Maybe just using Linux's code or experience? Symbian is going to be open source as well, as far as I remember...

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Fernando @ Dec 3rd 2008 9:23AM

There's a saying back in finland: never put all your eggs in one basket

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tandeh @ Dec 3rd 2008 10:24AM

MAYBE THE NEW OPEN SOURCE SYMBIAN WILL BE BASED ON LINUX

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Tor Slettnes @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:28PM

Re Ubuntu:

Both Maemo and Ubuntu are based on Debian, and so use the same excellent package management system (APT) to synchronize versions and choose features. Maemo is smaller (duh!), with some extra goodies for small touch screens. So I'm not so sure that the horse of different color you are referring to hasn't already shown itself... :)