The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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Most people I know have phones with a recognisable, branded OS on them. One, thats ONE, of them has a Windows Mobile phone. The rest, almost all of them, are running Symbian
That may be down to Nokia's stranglehold on the Irish handset market, but Windows Mobile is behind GEOS in what people I know are using on their cellphone..
Not here its not...
Most people I know have phones with a recognisable, branded OS on them. One, thats ONE, of them has a Windows Mobile phone. The rest, almost all of them, are running Symbian
That may be down to Nokia's stranglehold on the Irish handset market, but Windows Mobile is behind GEOS in what people I know are using on their cellphone..