News - Samsung to develop its own mobile OS?

[HEXUS]

After the launch of the latest version of Nokia?s Maemo OS, rival Samsung is apparently feeling left out.

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[directhex]

Dell have debunked the "high return rate" myth.

And What are we defining as "their own OS" here? The thing to remember about an OS is it's made from several parts. Samsung already have their own unifying component, a UI called TouchWiz, which they use across their entire range - meaning current Samsung phones running Linux (e.g. Tocco, Pixon) all look and behave more or less the same. TouchWiz is the bit the user sees, and they don't really care whether the kernel is Symbian or Linux... and for the underlying bits, what counts as "their own"? There's a LOT of code in common between WebOS (Palm Pre) and Maemo (Nokia N*00) including the kernel and the media framework, and some with Android too (only the kernel), so where is the line drawn on calling something "their own" and calling it "Maemo with TouchWiz instead as a GUI"?

[TheAnimus]

the combination is currently a unique offering no?

OSX could hardly be called apple's if you applied that same logic, all the important bits are just BSD, with glue code to introduce the required security flaws.

[directhex]

the combination is currently a unique offering no?

OSX could hardly be called apple's if you applied that same logic, all the important bits are just BSD, with glue code to introduce the required security flaws.

The windowing kit on Apple is unique enough - as is Android's

Maemo is a funny one right now since it uses GTK+ - yet Nokia bought Trolltech (Qt) recently

[Brewster0101]

This can been seen as a good thing or bad thing.

Bad thing - do programmers need another OS to program for. With Apple, Android, Symbian and mobile windows - do we really need another one,

But if they are creating a new OS just for basic phone operations so it can be simple and quick to use then great.

I have a E71 which is brilliant, but there so many things it can so that I don't care about. I wanted a good phone that was a good phone and could do emails easily, the GPS is cool but not practical for every day use in a car.

Anyhoo, I guess we will have to wait and see.