Just acquired Symbian Nokia and remembered Linux again

Article Title: I just acquired Symbian Nokia and remember Linux again. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Nokia plans to increase its bet on Symbian software to spend $0.41 billion to cut off the shares of other shareholders in Symbian. if the deal is approved, Nokia promises to open the software for free.

According to foreign media reports, Nokia said Symbian software will play a key role in the company's software strategy. however, analysts said that the role of the Linux operating system in Nokia mobile phones is also becoming increasingly prominent, which indicates that Nokia's thinking has changed, prepare to use software from multiple vendors as your long-term goal.

Ben Wood, research director of CCS Insight, a market research vendor, said: "If Nokia is not developing another platform, it is impossible to open-source a strategically important platform. we believe Nokia needs a more powerful mobile software platform to compete with the iPhone and similar products. wood thinks Linux is the most likely alternative platform.

Symbian already has 0.25 billion million users. it is the leader in the smartphone operating system and controls more than half of the market. last year, as new competitors stepped into the market to get a share of the smartphone market of hundreds of millions of users, their competition became increasingly fierce. "The Linux operating system will be used for flagship mobile products, and Symbian will be used for mainstream market products," said Gary Hanke, an eQ analyst."

Some small-scale mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung and Motorola have several mobile products with different operating systems, while Nokia mainly uses the Symbian operating system. however, Nokia has been dealing with Linux for several years. It has been using the Linux operating system on the "Internet writing Board". The Internet writing board is an internet device similar to a phone, however, mobile phone call functions are not attractive to mainstream markets.

Nokia told attendees at the Technical Conference held last week that Nokia is about to launch a mobile phone with a pre-installed Linux maemo software that can access the 3G network, and upgrade its Linux Foundation membership to the gold medal level. "Nokia's goal is to bring open source and Linux into the mainstream consumer market," said Alibaba garkes, Nokia software development director."

Like Google, Nokia wants to make software code available to developers free of charge to improve its reputation in the industry. nokia's chief technology officer Bob ranuch told Reuters: "Let's see how we treat Symbian. Symbian is going to be open, and maemo is already very open. this is our bet."

So far, Linux has not been successful on mobile phones, but it has attracted the attention of the LiMo Foundation in the industry. the Android platform developed by Google uses Linux.

At an investor conference held in August, Nokia's Chief Financial Officer Rick siosson said that Linux is "very important" and that Nokia is already developing the next generation of Linux-based products, it is expected to be pushed to the market soon.