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A Nokia vice president, speaking at the company’s 2009 Nokia World event in Barcelona, said that his company is considering using the open-source Linux OS on future high-end smartphones.  Nokia already uses Linux on its Internet Tablet devices, including the WiMAX capable N810.
Android is not in the cards at this point, though, since the company [...]

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It appears that as part of its push into the smartphone markets in the U.S. and Europe, Japanese manufacturer Sharp is considering Android.
“We select the OS in accordance with the telecommunications carriers’ opinions, and we have no intention of setting any OS as standard. Google’s Android is one of the options.”
This is not to say [...]

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The free open source media player Banshee has hit version 1.4 and now syncs your music and playlists to the G1. It’s all automatic and works much like iTunes does with the iPhone. It even imports all the songs you’ve purchased from Amazon. Banshee as a media app is very sweet indeed, doing all the [...]

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Thanks to the efforts of one appropriately named Jay Freeman, it is now possible to get a version of the Debian Linux distro running on your T-Mobile G1 along side of Android.  You get the same Android phone functionality you’ve always had, but you can also install and run normal Linux compatible applications on the [...]

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Last week Verizon Wireless joined the board of the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation, a group with the purpose of standardizing the Linux operating system for use on mobile devices. So far, LiMo has not been very organized, and we have not seen much in terms of material progress come from the group. But [...]

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