While Sony Ericsson closing a partnership with Microsoft to run Windows mobile on their phones, some of the biggest mobile brand decided to follow Google’s path to open source the Mobile OS. The world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung and LG Electronics showed new phones using free Linux software from Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors, would use its software. This isn’t first time for Samsung using Linux. They used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched new SGH-i800 phone model running on LiMo software at the Mobile World Congress trade show, while LG Electronics showed a prototype phone LG LiMo.
The Linux operating system has so far had little success on mobile but its presence is increasing with LiMo rolling out its software platform, boosting the speed of new models reaching the market. You guys already know by now that Google is also using Linux to build its Android platform on. In case if you are wondering, Linux is the most popular type open source operating system these days. Linux suppliers earn money selling improvements and technical services, and Linux competes directly with Microsoft, which isn’t free at all. Well off course we are not here to start the OS wars, which was always on and will last for eternity 
According to LiMo foundation they managed to signed up some other heavy weight mobile brands as well, including France Telecom’s mobile arm Orange, Vodafone, SoftBank and STMicroelectronics. You can see the full list of members on LiMo site.
US mobile vendor Motorola, which has been the main user of Linux software before, plans to use LiMo platform in several of their upcoming models (Hope this time they will have some luck), while NEC and Panasonic unit both will use it in four models tailor-made for NTT DoCoMo.
This is about freaking time we will see some world class mobile phone beating open source in their core (heart??). How you expect to keep their price down if they have to spend so much money for the OS. It’s not that Linux is yet ready to take on Windows mobile (Which is still the second best-just not yet there) or Symbian OS (which way far advance than windows mobile still now), but still it has to start somewhere. Looks like this 2008 will be a year full of mobile dominance battles, just like a few years back it was web 2.0 battles.
Source: LiMo News archive.
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