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Linux In Your Ear: Getting Louder, Or Softer?

 
Time to revise another assessment. It looks like it isn't going to be a question of "will your next phone run Linux?" but "which Linux is it?" Between Android branching out into set-top boxes and both Panasonic and NEC pulling the covers off new LiMo -driven phones (and Motorola also in that running), the mobile market's becoming a Linux market ... even if the word "Linux" is still not likely to garner more than a blank stare from most people. After the Year of the Linux Desktop, here's the Year of Linux As A Soft Power. (link)

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