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Economic Slowdown Accelerates Linux Growth in Mobile Handsets

With deteriorating global economic conditions making their impact felt in the wireless industry, handset OEMs and mobile network operators are looking to linux-based operating systems to cut costs and diversify their handset portfolios. more

Smart Mobile Device Shipments Jump 53% to 118 Million in 2007

The latest market data from analyst firm Canalys shows how much the converged device market (all smart phones and wireless handhelds) has grown over the past year. These, typically high-end, devices represented around 10% of the global mobile phone market by units in 2007, with annual growth of 60% making them one of the fastest growing segments of the technology industry. Year-on-year growth climbed every quarter throughout 2007, to reach a peak of 72% in Q4. more

Open Handset Group Announces Linux Based Handset Platform

The open handset consortium, the LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008 of the first release of the LiMo Platform - a linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications. more

Mobile Linux Group Gains New Associate Member

Purple Labs, a supplier of embedded linux solutions for mobile phones, has announced that it has joined the LiMo Foundation, which is developing a linux based software platform for mobile phones. In joining the LiMo Foundation as an Associate member, Purple Labs becomes the first commercial linux platform for feature phones in the consortium. more

China's Smartphone Sales up 5.2% in Q3 2007

China's CCID Consulting says that it saw a 5.2% increase is sales in China's smart phone business in Q3 '07, compared to Q2'07. CCID Consulting released its latest data showing that the sales volume of China's smart phones reached 6.388 million sets in Q3, up 5.2% over Q2; sales revenue reached 16.61 billion Yuan, increasing 11.3% on a month-on-month basis. With students buying phones during the summer vacation and with promotions during the Chinese national holiday, the smart phone market created highs in sales volume. more

Linux to be the Fastest-Growing Smartphone OS over the Next 5 Years

Research director Stuart Carlaw states, "Serious initiatives from the likes of Intel and Access are gathering pace and momentum, whilst the carrier community continues to identify linux as one of the few operating systems that it intends to support in its long-term plans." Carlaw adds, "linux is benefiting from growing support in the handset OEM community, most notably Motorola, but also Nokia with less traditional types of devices aimed at mobile broadband applications." The rise of mobile broadband and the impact that this has upon device convergence and format plays into the hands of linux. more

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Mobile Linux Handset Support Takes a Big Step Forward

Motorola Updates Mobile Linux Platform

Motorola has announced a new mobile linux platform for use within mobile phones. In the next few years, up to 60% of Motorola's handset portfolio is expected to be based on linux, with the new MOTOMAGX platform playing a key role in supporting this strategy. This is evident in the first products based on the MOTOMAGX platform: the music-optimized MOTOROKR Z6 and the Motorola RAZR2 V8 handsets, available now in select markets worldwide. The RAZR2 V8 will be Motorola's first linux-based device bound for North America. more

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Feature Phones Fight Back as European Mobile Phone Market Grows

According to the latest market data from IDC, the Western European mobile phone market, consisting of traditional mobile phones and converged devices, grew by 7% year on year in the second quarter of 2006 as shipments reached 41.4 million units compared to 38.5 in the corresponding quarter of 2005. more

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Linux Poised to Expand Role as Mobile OS

..he Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Mobile Linux Initiative, and the Mobilinux Open Framework Platform to name a few. Despite these efforts, there has not been significant forward progress on a platform standard.The recent announcement from Motoro more

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