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2010-10-22 , 09:46
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#78
Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
Cannot Linux be morphed into a Mobile Linux, more efficient and better integrated with the hardware? Linux flexibility should allow you to make such such a fork, shouldn't it?
Yes, up to a point, but Linux simply is a poor RTOS by any standard. The thing is that both Symbian and Windows CE didn't really evolve over the last 5-6 years. In particular this was evident in the UX department. Linux and BSD/Unix or whatever the iOS really is have evolved at a great speed, most of it in the UX department.

For internet tablets and similar, there is no need for complex real time hardware interaction, for phones there is. Without a real OS, more complex things like multitasking, will suck the battery life empty in no time. Maemo is great in multitasking, but battery life is abysmal compared with Symbian.