The world's largest handset maker Nokia unveiled on Thursday its first high-end phone running on Linux software.
The Finnish firm has Nokia dabbled with Linux since 2005 using it in "Internet tablets", sleek phone-like devices used to access the Web that have failed to gain mass-market appeal in part due to their lack of a cellular radio.
The new N900 model, with cellular connection, touch screen and slide-out keyboard, will retail for around 500 euros ($712), excluding subisides and taxes. Nokia's workhorse Symbian operating system controls half of the smartphone market volume, more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion
and Google put together.
Linux is the most popular type of free, or so-called open source, computer operating system available to the public. It competes directly with Microsoft Corp, which charges for its Windows software and opposes freely sharing its code.
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