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Motorola's Linux strategy evolves with Android
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| Motorola was one of the first major handset makers to embrace the Linux
| platform. Its earliest Linux-based phones were popular in China, enabling the
| company to sell over 5 million of the penguin-powered devices by 2006.
| Following that initial victory, Motorola brought its Linux phones to the US
| with its global launch of the Razr2 in 2007. Motorola's current Linux lineup
| features eight LiMo-compatible handsets and the company boasts that its total
| sales of Linux-based phones has exceeded 14 million as of this year.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081007-motorolas-linux-strategy-evolves-with-android.html
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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.
|
| [...]
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| 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/
iPhone vs. Android : An Open Source Devs Perspective
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| According to Andrea Gazzaniga, software development manager at mobile open
| source vendor Funambol the answer is not entirely clear. In a rambling
| overflow presentation at AjaxWorld's iPhone Sumitt, Gazzaniga attempted to
| outline the differences and similiaraties between iPhone and Android.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/iphone-vs-android-an-open-sour.html
First look: latest Google Android SDK a big improvement
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| I tested several of the applications that come with the SDK, including the
| mapping program, the contact book, and the web browser. I also tested the
| experimental Google Talk chat integration feature. I was able to connect to
| Google Talk and receive messages, which are displayed as items on the
| notification panel. The performance and usability of the bundled applications
| is pretty decent.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-first-look-latest-google-android-sdk-a-big-improvement.html
Could Android Grease Motorola's Wheels?
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| Motorola is reportedly readying itself for a big push into the new Android
| mobile software system. The company is said to be on a hiring frenzy for
| Android developers, upping its staff in that department from 50 to 350.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64648.html
Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.
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| The most significant of these may come from Motorola. One of the original
| partners in the Open Handset Alliance behind the open-source mobile OS,
| Motorola already has 50 people on its Android team and is growing that to
| 350, according to an Android developer approached by a headhunter to join the
| team. That is a huge commitment that shows how big a bet Motorola is making
| on Android.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/28/motorola-building-up-350-person-android-team-nokia-also-sniffing-around/
Nokia's next-gen Linux-based net tablet to incorporate HSDPA
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| To date, none of the Nokia's Linux-based tablets - the 770, N800 and N810 -
| have incorporated cellularl connectivity. Like Apple's iPod Touch, they've
| been intended to connect to the internet primarily over a Wi-Fi link. The
| Nokias also have Bluetooth to allow the to link up to a net-connected mobile
| phone.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/22/nokia_maemo_5_details/
Nokia unveils Maemo roadmap, plans for 3G Internet Tablet
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| During a presentation at the Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) event in Berlin
| yesterday, Nokia open source director Ari Jaaksi revealed plans for Maemo 5,
| the next generation of the Linux-based operating system used on the company's
| Internet Tablet devices. The new version of the platform will support 3G data
| connectivity (a WiMAX-enabled Internet Tablet was announced earlier this
| year) and TI's high-performance OMAP 3 processor.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-nokia-unveils-maemo-roadmap-plans-for-3g-internet-tablet.html
http://tinyurl.com/54cvhc
Nokia’s Maemo 5 open-source Linux OS promises faster, more powerful Internet
Tablets
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| Nokia’s little Linux-based, open-source darling has really blossomed into one
| fine looking platform. And, as the Maemo platform that powers Nokia Internet
| Tablets, like the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, again grows too big for its
| britches, Nokia will have to release newer versions of the Linux-based mobile
| platform.
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/09/17/nokias-maemo-5-open-source-linux-os-promises-faster-more-powerful-internet-tablets.html
Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
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| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
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| "We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an
| opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them," Symbian chief
| executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo. "And that could be on the
| application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system
| level."
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/16/symbian-extends-collaboration-offer-to-google-possibly-android.html
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
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| The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being
| formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led
| Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to. Enjoying 40 percent
| of the global handset market, and holding the largest stake in the
| market-leading Symbian platform, Nokia did not have to be quite as reactive
| as other manufacturers when it came to the open-source revolution. It was,
| however, inevitable that it would join the revolution and, after a suitable
| period of observer status, it chose the right time to do so.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=1888
Nokia embraces Ubuntu OS
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| Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices are set to get a port of the Linux operating
| system Ubuntu, following the release of the latest ‘Hardy Heron’ v8.04 of
| Ubuntu this week.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/linux/nokia-embraces-ubuntu-os--330238
Nokia does not get it
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| You better start playing by the rules because else the other companies might
| do it faster than Nokia and you will lose the opportunity. Oh: And just as a
| remind: when you go open source, you must play by the rules by honoring the
| license of the software.
|
| Really, it’s sad to listen to things like this from someone controlling the
| company who owns Trolltech I am sure that the vice-president of companies
| like Red Hat wouldn’t say nonsense like the above. But it’s no surprise
| coming from someone in a company that seems to be absolutely in favor of
| software patents in Europe according to FFII.
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http://edulix.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/nokia-does-not-get-it/
Ari Jaaksi of Nokia Wants to Educate the Linux Community
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| But perhaps the community has some education for Jaaksi and Nokia. Jaaksi
| hosted me at a Nokia dinner in 2000, he's a nice guy and has been interested
| in Linux for a long time. But Nokia's barking up the wrong tree this time,
| because Nokia can do everything it wants with DRM, IPR, and SIM locks without
| bothering the Linux developers about it - and both Nokia and the Linux
| developers will like it better that way. It's surprising that Nokia doesn't
| understand that at this late date.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198
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