PalmSource, France Telecom’s Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to standardize aspects of Linux running on mobile phones. More info here.
New Linux Phone Standards Effort in the Works
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Anything to pull the community together and get this stuff to become more competitive. I only wonder how long it will take for 10 companies to come up with a standard that they all agree upon.
Pfft. If Motorola is involved, I have little faith. Their Linux phones right now have shitty support, no native SDK that’s publicly available, and all of the fun stuff is locked away.
Here’s what I mean: I have an A780, and I was hoping to write a Bluetooth remote control application. However, Motorola decided not to support JSR-82. Sweet. GPS is also available on the phone, but that API is also suprisingly unavailable. Awesome.
Next phone I buy will be either Symbian or Windows Mobile.