Motorola shipped a million Linux-based ‘Ming’ phones in China last quarter, prompting the question as to whether Linux is now ready to take on Symbian and MS. There’s some heavy-hitters moving in to support the operating system, but that million Ming phones is a small percentage of the number of handsets shipped.
“While the open source movement for handheld devices has been going strong, research shows that for now, Linux for embedded applications still has a lot of catching up to do…Symbian remains by far the top operating system for mobile devices, according to Canalys, with a 67 percent share, well ahead of second-place Windows Mobile, with 15 percent of the market.”
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