LiMo Foundation says that while the world’s population is increasing by a net three persons every second, giving us a population expansion of 180 every minute, 10,800 each hour and 259,200 every day. You think that’s astonishing. Well, mobile phones can better that. Every second there are 38 mobile phones sold and that’s 2,280 every minute, 136,800 each hour and 3,283,200 every day. Who says they don’t rule our lives?

Today, the number of global mobile subscribers is hovering close to 3 billion and growing rapidly: 1.2 billion mobile devices are sold annually and analysts are predicting more than 4 billion subscribers by 2010 (source GSMA). While already proven as a powerful and scalable platform technology for mobile handsets, mobile Linux is expected to experience a surge of growth during the next five years and could be the fastest growing handset operating system through this period.