Nokia preparing Linux-based phones

From Engadget -

Nokia CFO Rick Simonson has revealed this week his company will be releasing some Linux-based cellphones in the future. However Simonson refused to reveal what flavor of mobile Linux would be used; borrowing from its tablets might make sense, but the emerging Android and LiMo are pretty hard to ignore, too.

Source article here.

Mobile Ubuntu, anyone?

From Engadget -

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) will be the first Ubuntu release to include mobile and embedded editions, targed at hand-held devices and other mobile/embedded form factors. Wtih a 2.6.22 Linux kernel, the new version will integrate components from Nokia's Hildon UI. The UI was first used on the N800 tablet.

Given the above, it looks like the video (screen cap from Engadget is shown below) showing an SE P990i running Ubuntu most likely isn't a hoax after all. So the countdown begins - October 18th is the scheduled release.