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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

The Purism Librem 5 is a smartphone that ships with PureOS, the same free and open source GNU/Linux distribution that ships on Purism’s laptop and desktop computers. The company first began taking pre ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware. It does this by putting Linux ...

In today's open source roundup: The Ubuntu Phone and its chances for success. Plus: Mozilla Thunderbird 31.5.0 released, and Lenovo sued because of Superfish adware The Ubuntu Phone sold well after ...

The new Linux-based PDA/phone from German company Invair. The Firewalker doesn’t look so great, but it does have tri-band GSM and GPRS, integrated GPS for navigation, Bluetooth, 64MB of RAM, and a ...