The company is inching toward offering its Windows Phone operating system gratis in some markets. Does that portend big changes in Microsoft's strategy? A longtime Microsoft analyst weighs in. Brooke ...

Alongside a new foldable and flagship phone, Huawei has revealed its first mobile OS made entirely in-house. It’s part of Huawei’s plans to build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources, ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

The Free Software Foundation has published initial details about the LibrePhone project. The goal is not to develop a smartphone operating system. As the FSF explains in a blog post and a FAQ page, ...

Lost in the Palm Pre device and WebOS is this fact: It's an exciting time of non-stop development for mobile operating systems--and it's killing Windows Mobile. Mary Jo Foley notes that Microsoft will ...

Google claims its goal is to release annual updates to Wear OS as it does for mobile. The new commitment is to ensure the latest Android features are incorporated quickly to support mobile. OEM’s will ...

Dominant on Android, Samsung's attempts to mitigate any risk from the Google-Motorola deal - as well as target emerging markets - have been improved with the Korean manufacturer announcing three new ...