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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Saturday, 22 September 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 However penetration and usage are not necessarily equivalent. Symbian claims to account of over 70 percent of smartphone operating systems today but, according to Australian market researcher, Telsyste, it hardly rates in enterprises' plans for smartphone based applications. MontaVista has joined the LiMo Foundation (www.limofoundation.org) a body set up in January 2007 by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone to develop and promote Linux-based platform for mobile devices. It aiims to create the world's first globally competitive Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Handsets supporting the LiMo platform are expected to reach consumers in the first half of 2008. MontaVista, based in California claims to be the leading provider of Linux for intelligent devices and communications infrastructure. Its Mobilinux software "provides an embedded Linux operating system optimised for mobile devices and a rich development environment...[enabling] developers and manufacturers to deliver new handsets to consumers more quickly and with greater functionality, fast performance, and battery-extending power management." MontaVista claims that some 35 million smartphones, cellphones, and other mobile devices run on Mobilinux, far more than any other commercial Linux. |
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