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 ...

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 ...

Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an entirely different beast. But the underlying structure — how the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...