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While Symbian is essentially going the way of the DoDo, and Nokia’s shifting some of its resources away from MeeGo, those aren’t the only open source mobile operating systems around. Google Android is ...

2015 was such a hopeful year for Linux on smartphones. At the beginning of the year, there was so much hope for what could be. The promise of Ubuntu Touch being ...

Folks have been using Raspberry Pi computers to build smartphones and other mobile devices for almost as long as Raspberry Pi hardware has been around. But developer Evan Robinson’s new OURphone is a ...

Having a great, Linux-based, mobile platform is one thing. Bringing it to the masses, in the form of actual smartphones (and tablets, phablets and whatever other words we’re using to describe “devices ...

Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to challenge ...

Last December, PalmSource announced it had acquired mobile Linux vendor China MobileSoft and planned to use the company's technology to migrate its Palm OS to a Linux kernel. In the months following ...

Canonical plans to expand its Ubuntu Linux distribution so it could be used on smartphones, tablets and other touch interface consumer electronics, said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. “Everyday ...

After years of silence, Finnish company Jolla is stepping back into the smartphone market. Today, the company announced on X that the new-generation Jolla Phone is coming soon with fresh hardware, a ...

Nokia on Thursday revealed plans to launch its first-ever high-end smartphone built on an open-source Linux platform. The Nokia N900 packs in Nokia's own Maemo 5 software, which the Finnish mobile ...

Founded by ex-Nokia employees, Finnish company Jolla is once again back with a new phone after more than a decade. However, ...