It almost feels like some folks believe that mobile Linux is not really worth the effort. Speaking for myself, I believe there is plenty of potential.

There is little disagreement about the opportunities for Linux on mobile phones, but it will take some work to give Linux its legs. While Linux today is one player among the many operating systems in the mobile handset market, finding its stride will be a matter of operating system enhancements, the formation of standards by the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS), and use of the open source platform by a major manufacturer with a winning product, analysts said.

Yankee Group senior analyst John Jackson said Linux already commands the attention of the mobile handset industry, with platforms such as Monta Vista’s mobile Linux operating system shipping on more than eight million phones in the last two years. “I think that Linux is of tremendous interest to the mobile supply-side handset vendors, platform vendors, et cetera,” he said. “There exist stable, scalable Linux operating systems in the marketplace.”[Read the rest]