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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? It'll leave them developing an open-source operating system. Linux hasn't "killed" too many other open-source operating systems in the past, and I dare say it probably won't kill Symbian either - fair enough, Symbian may well become far more marginalised than Nokia had thought... equally it may not. > 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 Likewise. Even though the case is a little rough-around-the-edges now (been dropped a couple of times), I'll stick with my shiny Linux-running Palm Pre. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html