Apparently Intel and Nokia thinks that the world needs yet another open mobile platform besides Android, Limo, OpenMoko, Maemo and whatever else is out there.
Intel and Nokia have announced the oFono project which is an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution. oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
The guys over at Symbian Customer Operations decided to tinker around and make the Symbian operating system run on an ordinary Intel Atom based PC. Showcasing Symbian’s capabilities of being able to run on even a desktop computer presents a world of possibilities. Not that Symbian is already running on majority of the mobile phones out on the market.
I wonder what this tells us of the future of Maemo –the Linux operating system running on it’s N8xx mobile gadgets. Nokia does have a quite power list of software in its arsenal — Maemo, QT (which Nokia acquired a while back) and Symbian to name a few. It would be nice to see how Nokia would come up with these to introduce the next major development towards a truly connected phone.
