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Smartphone Applications: Will we be able to buy a phone in the near future that is OS independent?

  • Will phone hardware manufacturers introduce phones in the future that will allow us to choose the operating system that we should place on those phones? With so many portable OS coming into picture is that a possibility?

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    Currently most of the phone manufacturers make it hard work - oh, I know there are people who routinely root/jailbreak and otherwise hack about on their phones without fear, but it's a daunting prospect for most, especially when manufacturers pointedly refuse to honour warranties when anything gets modified. What's encouraging is the increased interest in Nexus devices which are intentionally easier to tinker with; more than that, we're seeing Ubuntu and Firefox appearing as phone operating systems, with suitably hackable reference hardware.

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It is happening now. Where are you? Everything depends on the kernel you use. You can boot Ubuntu on android, and other Linux distributions. It's currently possible only Linux. If a universal kernel is developed, we could be running iOS on Nexus.

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Quoted from a reply by , " In theory, but in practise it is very unlikely for two reasons. First is approval & IOT. A phone is released and tested as a complete system. If something changes it could easily disable a big chunk of cellular network. So for very powerful reasons no-one wants to allow that flexibility. Second is the business model. Phones are heavily subsidized. Increasingly, some of that comes from services, adverts or selling data. (Why else do you think Google has invested $bn in Android?) The flexibility you want will prevent that which would mean no business model or subsidy." and What do you think ? I don`t really understand the cellular network problem that Rupert talks about. Can either of you shed some light on that ?

Parag Nerurkar

This is as much dependent to OEMs as the OS manufacturers! See, OEMs can make a device and supply necessary framework for it, but you will require an OS too which can be installed, right? Android and Ubuntu Touch are the only open-source options till now what we can avail. Other two major OS (iOS and Windows Phone 8/8.1) are not open sourced. If Apple or Microsoft is not gonna take these initiative, we can't avail this flexibility ever!

Rahul Bera

may be.. canonical aims that with ubuntu mobile and firefox OS is also heading in this directions but its gonna take hell lot of time to reach there and it may an option only on the high end models..

Akash Agarwal

I think Alcatel OneTouch Pixi is an OS-agnostic or "independent", if you will, smartphone...It works on Firefox, windows or android platforms...

Anil Aleti

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