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My tweetsI am writing this from India (GMT + 5.5) and roaming with my Singapore (GMT + 8.0) mobile phone. I noticed something very strange. In all my mobile phones, under “time and date” settings, I usually setup time zone as local time instead of GMT +/- X and Network operator time as auto-update. By this way, I hope to always have the current local time updated automatically. Everything seem to have worked fine until now…
2008 contains a lot of turning-point events for the mobile space. The first mobile phone based on Android OS is around the corner (engadget, informationweek report that it is weeks away). Android OS contains a complete stack to support multiple connectivity interfaces like voice, 3G, Wi-Fi. Apple rolled out iPhone 3G and also surprised the industry through the launch of its stunningly-simple-to-use App Store. Nokia the major stock holder in Symbian, the market leader in mobile OS, is unifying with the OS with all the UI frameworks (S60, UIQ, MOTS) into a Symbian foundation and will make it open source within a few months. For the last couple of years, Nokia in addition to selling Symbian OS devices also shipped a few products using a custom-built Linux distribution code-named Maemo.