Linux on Mobiles

russell beattie writes that the future belongs to linux: "symbian’s major problem [is]: developer support. from the very beginning, the symbian platform has been difficut to impossible to understand, let alone develop for. it takes experienced c++ developers tons of time to even understand the strange way that the symbian os works, let alone get to any level of expertise. it also requires a windows development box and usually a not-for-free ide to manage the code as well. then, when developers run into problems, they must navigate a myriad of different sources for answers, including symbian.com, nokia, carrier websites, etc. on top of this, someone, somewhere forgot to tell symbian that the “user interface is the os”. thinking that series 60 is the same as uiq or series 90 is like saying t...