Open Source is winning in mobile phones

By Prakash / 14-May-2010

Not sure, how many people already know or realise that most of the cellphones sold today are based on Open Source.

Android is the fastest growing Operating System for phones is based on Linux.
Nokia’s N900 platform runs Linux too.
Palm’s (now acquired by HP) WebOS is based on Linux too.
Symbian the most popular phone operating system is now Open Source.
iPhone is based on a BSD kernel which is also Open Source.

Is there still room for proprietary operating systems?

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3 thoughts on “Open Source is winning in mobile phones”

Tejas Dinkar
16-May-2010 at 6:41 pm

iPhoneOS is about as open source as the networking stack in Windows.

ie, somewhere in the (distant) past, it was a fork from BSD
Ranjit
3-Jun-2010 at 3:42 pm

Openmoko is a complete open mobile project where the hardware as well as the software stack all are open… None of the above mentioned mobiles will come nearer to OM … some setbacks are there…. but then the topic is all about being open isn’t it?
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