Linus Torvalds: Nexus One is a Winner

Read how the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds endorses Google's Nexus One in his blog:

"But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn't enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I've wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that google navigation might finally make a phone useful.

And it does. What a difference! I no longer feel like I'm dragging a phone with me "just in case" I would need to get in touch with somebody - now I'm having a useful (and admittedly pretty good-looking) gadget instead. The fact that you can use it as a phone too is kind of secondary."

There you have it. Take that Steve - resistance is futile ...

Android could become the "Windows" of the mobile phones

Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics gave his speech in Solution Expo in Espoo, Finland. Rhines predicted that there will be one de facto standard operating system for mobile phones - similarly what Windows has been for PCs. A such "standard" OS would make application development easier and more profitable in many ways. He argued that most likely this dominating OS will be open source and Linux based. Rhines would place his bet on Android ...