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Linux not ready for mobile phones, Nokia exec says and this about some experiments they are working on: Nokia turns cellphones into webservers
This is pretty interesting and gave a good balance to the “all on linux” message.
At the end, what really matters are the services offered by th eplateform, and not the kernel…if you have the malloc/fopen/socket functions, do you really care if there is a linux kernel to implement the functions ? Guess no, only the services and their description are relevant, not their implementation, to digg this idea, see my post: Does mobile OS matters : no, it’s all about function. in response to this great one at Mobile Opportunity.
So nokia wants to run some “open-source” services (a browser, Apache) on their phones … and has realized that Linux is NOT mandatory to do that.
To come back to the web server article, I’ll quote the following:

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• Interactive, contextual, and location-dependent content
  • Use the phone as a webcam
  • Find other mobile web sites in the proximity
  • Find out the location of a mobile website (cellid)
• Enabling new communication means without operator involvement
  • Send instant message
  • Leave instant message in the inbox
  • Leave a note on a mobile weblog
• Access core data
  • Access favorites, contacts, calendar, logs, and messages
  • Download images
  • Mount a read-write view of the root webserver directory and edit pages directly using WebDAV

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The second point is particularly interesting: no need of the operator nor centralized servers to create services…the phone makers are back in the game to master as much as possible user content and phone usage…For me many things can be read between the lines with this experiment, pretty exciting to say the least!
Any comments are welcomed!

Great read from TomSoft about Mobile Ajax:
TomSoft » Myths of mobile Web2.0 (and mobile Ajax).

Really in line with what Thomas said, especially this point :

…Ajax applications will run the same on mobiles than on PC, and this will save us some porting costs. Wrong! Seems that the Write Once Run Anywhere myth is back!! It was actually already not achievable through technology designed for this, so I did not see how Ajax app…

Same for me … the more I work in this industry with european, chineese,Korean partners the more I see:

• How skilled they are
• NO UNIFORMITY : for each client, and even for each phone for each clients, many things are different and can’t be abstracted generalizing a concept.
• Requirements are from Operators (Carriers), Graphic Designers etc… and no one has the same approach for UI and data representation…

A good technology should help this diversity and free the creativity of those actors… wrong idea to lock them in one scheme, one way to do … how will they differentiate?
Customization is key, and is not at all limited to theme, colors and image, but of the whole software …this is our vision here at open-plug