There seems to be a Linux phone boom! First it was Motorola to announce to Linux, then it was E28 a chinese company to follow suit and now Samsung too had released a Linux phone. On a seperate development NTT DoCoMo Japanese leading mobile provider had said they would go the Linux way.
Whats driving these companies towards Linux? There are couple of reasons.
– They don’t have to pay License fees
– Provides them with lots of flexiblity
– Lets face it, Linux is good 🙂
Most of the phones choosing to use Linux are for smart phone with PDA, camera, MP3 and other facilities.