Mot's UIQ buy more an 18 than a 180

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Mot's UIQ buy more an 18 than a 180 — Motorola's interest in buying half of Symbian stack-provider UIQ represents a diversion rather than a U-turn away from Linux, writes mobile phone market analyst Andreas Constantinou in an informative blog post. Constantinou figures Motorola may move about 10 percent of its planned Linux-based models to UIQ. ...

Maddog talks Linux devices

Sound advice about Linux, embedded and GPL

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Maddog talks Linux devices — Jon "maddog" Hall has made a featured guest appearance on a podcast series devoted to embedded Linux development. The veteran Linux promoter discusses binary kernel drivers, mixing proprietary and GPL software, and his "secret" retirement plan in the latest episode of TimeSys's Linux Radio podcast. ...

Motorola Sees Income, Sales Drop

clipped from www.eweek.com Motorola Sees Income, Sales Drop Motorola posted another disappointing quarter Oct. 25 but gave investors some hope a series of job cuts and a new line of handheld devices may revive the troubled U.S. mobile giant. Last month, Motorola officials said they expected to start turning things around by the end of the year with the introduction of new smartphones for both the enterprise and consumers. During the third quarter, Motorola increased cellphone and other handheld devices—including a new deluxe Razr2—shipped from 35.5 million in the second quarter to 37.2 million.

Text input software showcased on Access Linux Platform

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Text input software showcased on Access Linux Platform — Zi Corporation continues to sow its multimodal text input software throughout the Linux mobile phone community. At Access Day 2007 in Tokyo today it showed off the technology pre-integrated into the Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile phone stack. ...

RIP Linux "Greenphone"

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com RIP Linux "Greenphone" — Trolltech has discontinued its Linux-based "Greenphone" development platform. Touted upon its introduction as the first Linux-based mobile phone with user-modifiable firmware, the device will be superseded by various third-party products, including not only open phones, but also portable media players, navigation devices, and home automation equipment, ...

SDK supports sub-$10 HD-video SoC

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com SDK supports sub-$10 HD-video SoC — Baby-monitor developers, start your engines! RidgeRun has introduced a Linux-based SDK (software development kit) for Texas Instruments's sub-$10 TMS320DM355 digital video SoC (system-on-chip). A free SDK targets TI's DM355 Digital Video Evaluation Module (DVEM) reference design, and a paid "developer's version," with additional features and support, is also being offered. ...

What Mot's UIQ buy says about Linux

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com What Mot's UIQ buy says about Linux — Oct. 17, 2007 — Motorola has bought half of UI Holdings, owner of the UIQ Symbian software stack for touchscreen phones. The investment could help Motorola profit from an emergent touchscreen smartphone market, while focusing its Linux development efforts around higher-volume mass market phones such as the RAZR2 V8. ...

Google OS to go on HTC handsets

clipped from www.news.com October 17, 2007 11:47 AM PDT Analyst: Google OS to go on HTC handsets Posted by Elinor Mills A Google phone concept mockup created by T3 (Credit: T3) Taiwanese handset maker HTC is expected to ship about 50,000 cell phones by the end of this year that use a mobile operating system from Google, according to a Fortune article that cites a report from a UBS analyst. The phones won't be for sale until next year; the initial shipment will go to developers, says analyst Benjamin Schachter. Google is likely talking to other handset manufacturers, he says. Google has declined to comment on rumors of its phone plans. Google is hosting an analyst day on October 24, and Schachter expects the company to talk about its phone strategy then. Topics: Cellular, Google Tags: Google, phone, mobile Bookmark: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit

New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard — Nokia has announced a new version of its Linux-based Internet tablet. The N810 is smaller, heavier, and faster than the older N800, with new features that include a slide-out hardware QWERTY thumb keyboard, GPS receiver, FM transmitter (for in-car listening), and a light-sensing screen dimmer. ...

Broadcom ships "3G phone on a chip"

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Broadcom ships "3G phone on a chip" — Oct. 16, 2007 — Broadcom is continuing its push into the market for ARM-based mobile phone processors, with a newly shipping, sub-$25 "3G phone on a chip." The BCM21551is built on 65nm technology and combines two ARM11 cores with HSPA (high-speed packet access) modem acceleration, multiple radios, 480Mbps USB, and on-die audio/video subsystems, ...

"Mobile Firefox" takes on phones, devices

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com "Mobile Firefox" takes on phones, devices — The Mozilla Foundation will ship a mobile version of the popular Firefox browser in 2008, according to a blog post from Mike Schroepfer, VP of engineering. Schroepfer writes that "Mobile Firefox" (MoFi?) will be based on Gecko 1.9 with "significant changes" for improved performance and footprint. ...

Conference targets set-top box market

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Conference targets set-top box market — X Media Research has announced a technology conference devoted to set-top boxes (STBs) and the "related technology ecosystem." Set Top Box 2.0 will take place Dec. 6 in San Jose, Calif. ...

A tiny platform for custom wireless mobile devices

Ok little board but high cost unless in volume. Seems stupid to have such a high single quantity price - just make 1k of them and sell them for $300 - that would facilitate larger adoption. Unless compulab isn't confident in the board.

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com A tiny platform for custom wireless mobile devices — CompuLab has introduced a tiny SBC (single-board computer) aimed at mobile device applications. The EM-X270 is based on a PXA270 processor, and integrates a touchscreen LCD controller, WAN, WLAN, and WPAN wireless, GPS, and an assortment of I/O ports, and is offered with a Linux OS. ...

Kernel guru woos Linux devs at MontaVista summit

Interesting information on the embedded world within Linux

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Kernel guru woos Linux devs at MontaVista summit — SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Analysis -- MontaVista's inaugural partner event this week attracted 400, including many long-time embedded industry vets. Well-run and successful, the "Vision" event nevertheless underscored the modest role embedded developers play in Linux development, despite an explosion in consumer spending on Linux-based devices. ...

Linux gadgets gain access to video websites

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux gadgets gain access to video websites — Opera Software, Freescale, and NEC have collaborated on a port of Adobe's embedded Flash player plug-in to Opera's device-oriented browser on Freescale's i.MX31 multimedia applications processor. The port currently targets the Linux version of Opera for Devices, and will enable the viewing of "video websites" such as YouTube on handhelds, ...

Linux to remain a leading embedded OS, says analyst

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux to remain a leading embedded OS, says analyst — A "significant portion" of development teams continue to use Linux as their primary embedded OS, a recent VDC survey finds. Additionally, the results suggest the trend will persist, "as the majority of current Linux users surveyed plan to use Linux again as their primary operating system on future [embedded] projects." ...

Webkit powers lightweight Web 2.0-compliant browser

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Webkit powers lightweight Web 2.0-compliant browser — This article introduces the Origyn Web Browser (OWB), an open-source browser based on Apple's Webkit rendering engine and targeting consumer devices such as phones, portable media players, and set-top boxes. The paper was written by Jean-Charles Verdie, CTO of OWB maintainer Pleyo. ...

Linux-friendly hypervisor targets multicore ARM

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux-friendly hypervisor targets multicore ARM — Trango is demonstrating its virtual processor technology running on multicore ARM11 processors, this week at ARM's developer conference in Santa Clara. The Trango Hypervisor will ship for ARM11 MPCore multiprocessors early next year, followed in Q2 2008 by support for ARM's new multiprocessor-enabled Cortex A9 processors, ...

Trolltech porting Qtopia Core to Windows CE

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Trolltech porting Qtopia Core to Windows CE — Trolltech has released a "technology preview" port of its Qt development framework to Microsoft Windows CE. The Qt/WinCE download is said to include nearly all of Qt's 400 C++ class libraries, with the goal of letting developers build Linux, Mac, Windows, and Windows CE binaries from the same code base. ...