It's up for pre-orders. Finnish company Jolla has announced a new smartphone after a long hiatus from launching new models.

Judging from comments made at last week’s 3GSM World Congress (see below for Linux-related 3GSM stories), the future of Linux and other open source operating systems as a core cell phone platform are ...

The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. "LiPS set itself up ...

It's been around two years since Canonical unveiled Ubuntu for mobile in a tangible capacity, and next week, the first Ubuntu phone will finally go on sale. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum – a group that wants to standardize Linux technology for the cell phone industry – received a boost to its membership last week with the addition of ZTE, the ...

Over the last few years, Google and Android have increasingly dominated the mobile scene, with Microsoft relegated to bit-player status. Once-massive players like BlackBerry scarcely stir a ripple in ...

FRANKFURT, GERMANY — After launching two of the world’s first Linux smart phones, China’s E28 Ltd. is now offering handset manufacturers the opportunity to license its software and hardware designs ...

Android, the popular mobile phone OS, is essentially just Linux with a nice user interface layer covering it all up. In theory, it should be able to do anything a normal computer running Linux could ...

Motorola grabbed a lot of headlines in February when it announced the world’s first mobile phone that runs Linux, however, developers won’t be able to create Linux applications and run those on the ...