Blogging Ottinger (tim)More good news for Linux/Motorola
It seems that Linux is doing quite well in motorola handsets. Now, it’s possible that the rising tide is lifting all boats, as there is some pretty significant growth in smartphones all over the world. PDAs seem to be dead outside of North America, or at least dying.
The “fun” part of the article is the lead-in:
Strong Linux smartphone sales in China helped Motorola achieve the highest overall year-on-year growth among the top five vendors in the PDA/Smartphone market, according to Gartner. In contrast, Motorola’s Symbian- and Microsoft-based smartphones are “not making significant progress,” Gartner reports.
Symbian is a cool enough thing too. I haven’t been programming for either Symbian or telephony Linux, so I don’t know which is more pleasant. I think it’s just good to see Linux taking a place of importance.
With an use-programmable Linux handset, all kinds of media and mashups are possible. I don’t know how things are going with the smartphones, but I hope that there are kits for writing FOSS apps for them. It could be cool.
