Verizon announces Linux based Cell Phone in 2009

Verizon has announced that sometime next year they will roll out a Linux based cell phone on their US wireless network.  The Linux based phone will NOT be the Google Android.  Although Verizon said they are not ruling out the Android and may or may not include devices running the operating system.  Verizon also accuses Google that the Android is not as “open” as they say it is.  Verizon’s company spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said that Google is calling the shots.  Which would mean less control for Verizon: “Google said ‘Here’s the plan. Sign on the dotted line if you support.’ It may end up being collaborative. It may end up being collegial. But it need not be.”