Nokia to buy, free Symbian

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Nokia to buy, free Symbian — Jun. 24, 2008 — [Updated 2:15PM] -- Nokia will buy the rest of Symbian, and release the smartphone OS under an open source license. The OS will be governed and owned by a Symbian Foundation formed by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Ericcson, Panasonic, Siemens, AT&T, LG, Samsung, STMicroelectrics, TI, and Vodafone. ...

Nokia OS director on Symbian buy

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Nokia OS director on Symbian buy — Jun. 24, 2008 — [Updated Jun. 25] -- Following today's news that Nokia will release Symbian as open source, LinuxDevices spoke with Ari Jaaksi, Nokia's director of open source. We asked Dr. Jaaksi how the move affects the company's Linux strategy, participation in Maemo.org, and its strategy regarding Trolltech tools. ...

Mobile Linux groups merge (Lips & Limo)

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Mobile Linux groups merge — Jun. 26, 2008 — [Updated: Jun. 26, 2008] -- The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum announced that it will fold its standards-development activities and membership into the LiMo Foundation in July. The merge appears to bring British Telecom and Telecom Italia to LiMo, along with several key technology vendors. ...

Blogger unpacks Linux-based phone

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Blogger unpacks Linux-based phone — Out in the blogosphere (which we believe is somewhere near "the Internets,") the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner is getting unpacked, photographed, and examined. On Holden Karau's blog, he describes difficulties getting the FreeRunner working with an AT&T SIM card, but dubs the voice quality "pretty awesome."

OpenMoko Freerunner phone named W.E. Phone in US

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Distributor spins "W.E. phone" — [Updated: 1PM PST] -- Mississauga, Ontario-based Koolu Inc. has agreed to distribute OpenMoko's Linux-based Neo FreeRunner in the Americas, the U.K., and the European Union. Koolu is distributing the FreeRunner under the name W.E. Phone, and is bundling it with Google Apps. ...

News: Timesys rolls out OMAP35xx support

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com DIY Linux service supports Cortex-A8 — Timesys is offering a LinuxLink subscription for the Texas Instruments OMAP35xx line of system-on-chips (SoCs). The subscription includes the new 2.6.26 Linux kernel, toolchain, and hundreds of prebuilt, ready-to-use RFS (root file system) packages optimized for the processors, says Timesys. ...

Trango Virtual Prcessors demonstrated on OMAP3

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Cortex-A8 runs Linux-friendly hypervisor — French embedded virtualization firm Trango Virtual Processors is demonstrating a version of its virtualization technology that supports the Texas Instruments OMAP3 line of system-on-chip (SoC) processors. The Linux-ready Trango Hypervisor is being demo'd on the mobile-phone targeted OMAP3430 at Expo Comm Wireless Japan this week. ...