Verizon Wireless has made a monumental shift in its cell phone software platform strategy. The carrier has announced that it would make a Linux-based operating system the basis of its future mobile phone software. Surprisingly, that operating system isn’t Android, the cell phone OS being championed by Google.
Considered an alternative to the Google-led Open Handset Alliance, LiMo is taking a similar approach to cell phone software by creating a multi-vendor-supported open source operating systems instead of the kind of proprietary operating system controlled by a single vendor that most cell phones use today.
At this point, most Verizon Wireless phones use Qualcomm’s BREW operating system.
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