While Symbian is essentially going the way of the DoDo, and Nokia’s shifting some of its resources away from MeeGo, those aren’t the only open source mobile operating systems around. Google Android is ...

The Mozilla Foundation (in partnership with GeeksPhone) has just revealed that the first “Developer Preview” phones will be shipping with the new, Open Source, “Firefox OS” very, very shortly – ...

Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an entirely different beast. But the underlying structure — how the ...

Having a great, Linux-based, mobile platform is one thing. Bringing it to the masses, in the form of actual smartphones (and tablets, phablets and whatever other words we’re using to describe “devices ...

Last December, PalmSource announced it had acquired mobile Linux vendor China MobileSoft and planned to use the company's technology to migrate its Palm OS to a Linux kernel. In the months following ...

Fedora Pocketblue Remix is a mobile Linux distribution designed to let you run Fedora on a smartphone or tablet. But unlike ...

Nokia on Thursday revealed plans to launch its first-ever high-end smartphone built on an open-source Linux platform. The Nokia N900 packs in Nokia's own Maemo 5 software, which the Finnish mobile ...

Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. “Everyday ...

Palm will unveil a platform before the end of 2007 that runs the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, allowing the company to improve the performance and stability of its handhelds and smartphones, CEO ...

Well now I want to do a PoC of these as 4G backup modems versus a Cradlepoint. I wonder how good the support is for OTG Ethernet adapters. Another space these could legitimately take off is as ...