According to this news article on Register,an aliance of handset vendors have joined to create a common API for the Linux phones.These vendors are NTT DoCoMmo,NEC , Panasonic,Samsung and Motorola.This would bring about the much needed standardization in the embedded linux space.This news combined with another news about Nokia's new found love for Open source and Linux (770 tablet runs on Linux),makes me wonder if the embedded/mobile space is going to see 3 way battle now Windows Mobile,Linux and Symbian.
Next few years should be pretty interesting…:-)
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