Just when we’d gotten comfortable with three different operating systems for our smartphones, SavaJe Technologies steps into the muck with their Java-based ‘Savaje OS.’ Lest you think this is just another company that will disappear without making a splash — and if you think this, well, you’ve got a pretty good chance of being right — SavaJe is apparently backed by Vodafone and Orange, two big players in the European wireless service market.
Let’s not write them off too quickly, though. While I don’t see much room for success as widely-adopted smartphone platform here, it’s always possible for a company to carve out a niche providing good software for the ‘average phone’, a market that some of us with our smartphones and PDAs tend to forget exists at all. Plus, the carriers’ attempts to wrest more control of the operating system from the equipment manufacturers — and SaveJe’s willingness to comply with that agenda — might make the Saveje OS more popular than some would expect.
Also, how long before we can drop the ‘OS’ at the end of the name and just start calling it ‘Savaje’?
