Symbian/Linux, DoCoMo Orange Seed Smart Phones

Service-centric platforms are pushing towards Linux and Symbian OS, a move toward flexibility and customization being pushed by DoCoMo, Vodafone and Orange will play an important role in pushing smart phone sales to 150 million units, according to research firm ABI. “With increasing competition and high churn rates,” explains ABI analyst Kenil Vora, “operators have felt the need to differentiate their products.”

Over the past few years, wireless handset operating systems (OSs) and middleware have started playing an increasingly important role for OEMs/ODMs. On the other hand, Microsoft offers various benefits to the enterprise users that the other OSs lack. For instance, to the enterprise CIO, familiarity in platform and easy extensions with existing desktop software are important, and so Microsoft holds an advantage over Linux and Symbian. Continue >>