Maybe there is a Meizu handset with the open source OS in your (distant) future.
Additionally, the open source OS means that they "could get people to develop apps" for the satellite.
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Project Openmoko, which was dedicated to producing a truly open Smartphone OS, backed out of phone hardware after the release of the FreeRunner in 2009.
The other option is Ubuntu for smartphones from Canonical, which brings the mega-popular open source OS to mobile devices, specifically those designed for Android.
The phone we handled felt like a pretty standard low-end Android device, albeit running an HTML5 open source OS. Swapping between apps was quick and responsive, but the phone really wasn't doing too much.
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Mapping to key Firefox footprints around the globe, leading operators Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telenor are backing the open Firefox OS as an exciting new entrant to the smartphone marketplace.
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Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.
Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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The basic philosophy of a lightweight open-source OS designed to run specifically on Intel chips continues to have merit, and could extend into markets beyond the obvious phones and tablets towards seatback car entertainment, aeroplane media systems and elsewhere.
Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
The Android Linux is magnitudes more open and powerful than the BB OS and the QNX microkernel which is not acceptable for corporate apps.
Since this player works on open protocols, a person doesn't have to use the non-OS X friendly software suite but rather choose something a little more open such as TwonkeyVision.
In addition to the EULA and copyright allegations, Apple's complaint against Psystar has claims for inducing copyright infringement and infringing on Apple trademarks by advertising non-Apple machines as compatible with OS X which is exactly Open Tech's ploy here.
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Things are different now because both the browser and OS markets are becoming dominated by open source software.
Now that OS X is based on the industrial-strength Open BSD flavor of Unix, that won't happen nearly as much, if ever.
Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards.
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Having failed with its own OS, Bada, it is now a heavy proponent of the open source Tizen.
But the mobile sector was already on a long march to using open source software in all the critical elements of the chain, from the OS up.
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The creators of the OS denied it was infected with viruses adding that, in the world of open-source software, "there were no viruses".
Since the OS has you scrolling through the desktops horizontally, it's all too easy to accidentally open the tray as you scroll back and forth.
Android is already in 26% of smartphones (more than the iPhone OS) but is becoming a viable software choice for manufacturers to connect their gadgets to the open Web (read: not Facebook).
Android recently crossed the 50% global market share barrier in the mobile OS market helped by both its wide range of manufacturer-partners as well as its free and open source roots.
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At the same time Samsung has always harbored ambitions to own its own OS, initially with Bada but now in partnership with Intel on the Linux-based, open source Tizen project.
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Speaking to its OS, tinkerers should be pleased to know that D2M plans to continually enhance its functionality, and potentially open it up to developers.
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