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Verizon picks Linux - but not Android - for mobile platform

arstechnica.com — Verizon has joined the Linux Mobile Foundation and has announced plans to ship phones with the open source operating system next year.

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  • priegog, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Well at least they didn't found yet another linux for mobile project, and instead adopted the one the manufacturers already had created. It would still have been sweet to see android being picked up.
  • luchid, on 05/15/2008, -4/+7Silly Verizon. You turned down the iPhone and now you're turning down Android, one of the biggest things that will happen to the cell phone industry? Really?
    • jer2eydevil88, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2They probably think their ***** don't stink because they are picking up the leftovers of Sprint. Give it another year or two when Android matures and they will be singing a different tune.
    • itsfullofstars, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1RTFA
  • n0odles, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4This wouldn't have to do anything with the 700mhz Spectrum would it?
  • anshuman, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8super and now we can all have Linux phone with mainstream provider support too :D
  • dmcbride6, on 05/16/2008, -2/+11Prepare for vcastuntu?

    Verizon has a long history of ***** ass user interfaces...this move is NOT surprising.
    • talonstriker, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2vcastuntu....you need a pronouciation guide for that.
  • Jalh, on 05/16/2008, -0/+9verizon is always locking features . poor verizon
  • Protoss, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3Verizon just said they would include Linux in their mobile platforms...They are still going to use Android.
  • blakejohnson86, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Using a business like Verizon Wireless as an example, and how proprietary the CDMA technology seems to be (correct me if I am wrong), how exactly does one go about making the source code public?
    Actually, this really applies to Verizon Wireless more than any other wireless services that I can think of. Verizon tends to lock down there phone so much by replacing the factory GUI with a generic GUI, removing of factory features, etc. (Removing Bluetooth profiles for OBEX and whatnot.)

    (This comment was recycled from a previous article I commented on.)
  • redrock34, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Sprint will most likely pick up Android due to their joint venture with Google to create that nationwide WiMax network.
  • itsfullofstars, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1"Google's Android platform offers a higher level of consistency and interoperability because its application stack is built with a single cohesive API on top of a managed code system, but it doesn't support native applications, which means that it is less flexible and existing Linux applications can't be ported to run on it."

    If this is true, then I don't care if they didn't pick Android right away.
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