With all of the noise about how Linux is going to take mobile devices by storm, I think that most of us are still waiting to see this happen. Perhaps it is just not the right time for this to take yet. Only time will tell I guess. However, I believe it will happen - eventually.

Motorola made a lot of noise last year when it said it would start using Linux for handsets. The hardest of the hardcore geeks’ ears perked up, and analysts spelled doom for Symbian and Microsoft. But more than a year later, Linux has failed to set the mobile industry on fire. But BusinessWeek says, yes, Linux is still coming to a phone near you.

Only 1.1 million Linux-based phones will ship in 2004, Strategy Analytics says, though that may be an overly generous estimate, since there are just a handful of Linux handsets on sale, almost exclusively in Asia. But a director from MontaVista Software, one of the leading suppliers of Linux for mobile phones, says “every single mobile-phone maker is looking at Linux.”