Nokia is going to use Linux in their phones

[Jaden]

At the Nokia World event announcements on the Nokia N97 took place in Barcelona, the company reported the company's intention to start using Linux in their phones class high end.

Vice-president of Nokia said that in the long run, Linux will become a serious alternative platform for Symbian, used in today's older phones Nokia. Despite the fact that Google Android platform built on Linux, the company plans to use suited for the phone version of the platform Maemo, currently used only in the Tablet PC, because they see no advantage to the latter.

Operating system maemo Linux open source software is used in handheld computers, Nokia Internet Tablet, however, still did not show interest in terms of open platform devices.

[Sumit21]

Currently Nokia is already using in their online map operating system, open-source Linux maemo, but not yet burning desire to apply it in their other vehicles. Perhaps in the future this will change.