Nokia Sees Future with Linux Platform

Nokia, the worlds’s largest mobile phone manufacturer will soon use open-source Linux software to power its most advanced smart phone / phone models.

The news that will perhaps boost the morale of open source lovers is not a rumor but an official announcement made by the company.

Vice President at Nokia’s markets unit Ukko Lappalainen said the following to Reuters reporter: In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones.

Prior to this, Google released its Linux-based Android phone. The G-Phone is a proof that big names and companies are realizing the potential of open source as a viable platform for development.

Nokia uses Linux maemo software in its niche offering of Internet tablets, while it uses Symbian software for its phones.

“I don’t see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo,” Lappalainen also added that he doesn’t see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo.”

Source: LinuxDevices