Palm to use Linux in smartphones

Voleware sidelined

By Nick Farrell

Wed Apr 11 2007, 09:37

PALM IS planning to run its Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel in its future range of handhelds and smartphones.

PC World quotes CEO Ed Colligan as saying that Palm will continue to use Windows Mobile OS which has a high demand among its business customers, but wanted to develop along two tracks at once.

Palm will not license the new Linux-based platform to other handheld vendors, but will use it to upgrade the Palm OS. It will mean that it can handle simultaneous voice and data traffic while preserving its instant-on and instant application-switching. µ

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