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Re: [LUG] Fwd: Nokia launches open source phone

 

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Julian Hall wrote:

'The first handset to use the Symbian operating system since it became open source has been announced by Nokia.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8646715.stm

More here:

  http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/04/27/nokia_n8/

I do wonder what Nokia is up to though - The N900 is open source (Linux!) and runs maemo and/or meego and it's only a matter of time before someone ports android to it. (forget iphone as it can run Max OSX natively too - not terribly usable, but...)

So where does that leave them going?

Still - I don't care - I've got my N900 and I'll see what else is good in another 2.5 years time... (which seems to be about the length of time I keep phones for)

Gordon

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