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Linux mobile demos abound at Mobile World Congress

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on February 11, 2008

in BlackBerryCool, General and SmartPhoneCool

. Tags: Android, LiMO, Linux, Mobile World Congress.

The team at PDAStreet has gotten news that Android, the upcoming mobile phone platform from computer powerhouse Google, will be appearing in prototypes by a number of companies at the Mobile World Congress, as will the Linux-based platform called LiMO.

ARM, Qualcomm, NEC, Texas Instruments, Marvell, and others are all planning demonstration phones running Android that will be shown behind closed doors. Samsung, LG, ACCESS and Orange will all be on the side of the Mobile Linux foundation’s LiMO.

There’s been quite a lot of noise about Linux on mobile phones recently, I have to wonder if it’s going to be worth all the hype.

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