Archive for mobile os
You are browsing the archives of mobile os.
Symbian OS, Now Fully Open Source
As of 4th February, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS will be offered as a free open source download for anyone wanting to dabble with it. Nokia, which in 2008 had acquired Symbian and established the independent non-profit Symbian Foundation, has decided to publish the source code under the [...]
Feature And RTOS, The Phones India Will Still Need For Long
Smartphone sales growth was very impressive in last year and in the first quarter of 2009 too, while the total mobile phone sales dropped around 8.6% globally Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.6% increase from the same period last year, Gartner reports.
Now increasingly more number of ODM’s and OEM’s are eyeing the smartphone [...]
Now Ubuntu On Your Mobile Phone. Oh No! Wait! Not Yet
This article in PC World had me jump with joy. It spoke of Ubuntu being used as an operating system for Mobile devices. Ubuntu in my mobile, what could be better, I thought. But a little more reading made it clear that the release is actually a developer-only. And it’s not for mobile phones, but rather than Mobile Internet Devices. What’s the difference, you ask?