Open source software will mean the end of proprietary phone and software bundles, and create universal compatibility and lower the cost of handsets within three years, according to analyst firm S2 Intelligence.
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood.
The LiMo Foundation released the first full version of its mobile phone platform on Monday.
The LiMo Foundation launched its first mobile handsets, which run on the Linux-based Mobile LiMo Platform, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday.
Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
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