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With Google’s Linux-based Android powering the HTC Magic (Now in the Philippines through Smart Communications. I also heard Globe is offering HTC Magic and its available in Globe’s outlet in SM Mega Mall — this has to be verified since HTC Magic is not included in the Globe’s website’s list of phone offerings as of today), Nokia is following suit in the use of Linux for its new phone.

The use of Linux will be in parallel with Symbian in Nokia’s high-end product range. Symbian also an open source software and the main platform in Nokia’s phones “controls half of the smartphone market volume — more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion and Google put together,” according to the article: Nokia Unveils First Linux Phone in Channel Insider.

Although the celphone giant has kept a stable total market share, it is losing “share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple” and this “high-end products are important for Nokia because the company has not only lost market share there but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.”

And “analysts see Linux as a key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years” since the focus of business now have shifted from just selling phones to providing “services and software following Apple and Google’s entrances to the market in the last two years.”

Reference: Nokia Unveils First Linux Phone in Channel Insider