Palm applications Linux into smartphones

Smartphone maker Palm on April 10 said it will develop new products using the Linux operating system. This is one of the efforts to improve its competitiveness.

This information was confirmed by Palm's leadership at a recent meeting of analysts in New York. Another content that was presented at the meeting was information about Palm's "sell-off" incident and its business strategy.

Palm OS is the oldest and most widely used operating system among its products. However, Palm is not Palm's proprietary operating system. The company spent $ 44 million to win the operating system's lifetime license.

Last year Palm decided to launch a Treo smartphone using Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system.

Palm CEO Ed Colligan said his firm has been aggressively developing Linux-based products for a few years now. Palm's older software will be "more modernized" to apply to this new product line.

Although Palm OS has become a standard for handheld computers for many years, it has recently been condemned for being too obsolete and less improved. The operating system no longer seems to be catching up to the era of multimedia applications.

Colligan did not disclose details of the Linux product platform expected to be available sometime later this year.

Linux products are part of Palm's strategy to diversify product designs to help it increase competitiveness and reduce the time it takes to launch new products. Recently Palm has faced competitive pressures from stunned competitors such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung as well as a range of other mobile device manufacturers worldwide.

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