Sony Mylo Built On Qtopia Linux

Proof once again that Sony loves the use of Linux whenever possible!

Sony introduced mylo, “my life online,” a couple of weeks ago. The new handheld is a Wi-Fi-based personal communicator that looks vaguely like Sony’s Play Station Portable but is designed for messaging instead of gaming.

Unlike Sony’s other new mobile device, the VAIO UX Micro PC (a full-fledged Windows computer) or its past mobile devices (the Palm-based Clie series) Brighthand reports mylo is built on Linux. Trolltech’s Qtopia platform to be exact.

Qtopia’s user interface, file management, application launcher, handwriting recognition, etc. follows a paradigm well-known to mobile device owners that use other mobile platforms like the Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian. It has been used as the OS for other mobile devices before, such as Sharp’s Zaurus series of PDAs.

There’s a lot of software available for Qtopia as well, which could be a big plus for Mylo users. That is if Sony opens up the system….. Source: WiFi Planet