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[News] GNU/Linux Very Prevalent on Handsets

Your Phone Has Linux And You Don't Even Know It

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| As it turns out, Linux is making huge strides in the mobile phone department 
| too, so much so that you may have a Linux-powered phone without even knowing 
| it.  
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http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C14901/

Also new:

Customizable DMA controller ships with Linux drivers

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| QuickLogic is supporting Linux initially on a UDMA66 controller for 
| video-enabled, hard-drive equipped mobile devices.  
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4122246552.html

No Windows drivers yet.


Related:

Android phones as early as this fall?

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| A Google executive may have inadvertently tipped the wireless industry's hand 
| on the launch time frame for Android phones. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| The report also said that Samsung was racing with HTC to get an Android phone 
| out the door, meaning perhaps other handset makers have accelerated their 
| plans.  
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9901954-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Google Exec: Android To Beat iPhone

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| Rich Miner even went after Apple's handheld darling.  "Once you have devices 
| out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much larger 
| potential market on Android than for the iPhone," he said.  "[T]here's a 
| single manufacturer, it's targeted at a particular demographic, and it falls 
| far short of the 1 billion mobile phones sold every year worldwide."    
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/03/17/google-exec-android-to-beat-iphone


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest 
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask 
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
| 
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have 
| to go with that. 
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc


Is Google Android the Next Windows?

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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform 
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are 
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is 
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers. 
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android 
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog 
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although 
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that 
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology 
| market.    
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/


A third of all phones "smart" in five years

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| ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw said, "The market is currently 
| dominated by Nokia (52 percent) and Symbian (65 percent). However, the 
| coalescence of the framework wars in the Linux environment and the growing 
| stature of Windows Mobile will enable new competitors to put pressure on this 
| established axis."    
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8051784786.html


Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market

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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone 
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use 
| there.  
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q

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