Sub-$100 3G Linux phone debuts

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Sub-$100 3G Linux phone debuts — Jan. 31, 2008 — Philips spin-off NXP Semiconductors and French mobile Linux phone stack firm Purple Labs have teamed up on a sub-$100 3G phone hardware/software reference design. The Purple Magic runs Linux and a telecom RTOS on a single ARM9 core, thanks to embedded virtualization technology. ...

Azingo Mobil stack launch

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com New Linux phone stack ships — Jan. 30, 2008 — Start-up Azingo, formerly Celunite, will officially launch its Linux-based mobile phone software stack next month. Set to debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the "Azingo Mobile" stack is positioned as a comprehensive software/services offering for mid-tier feature-phones compliant with LiMo (Linux Mobile Foundation) requirements. ...

Nokia to acquire Trolltech for $150 million

N810 - the next green phone.

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Nokia to acquire Trolltech for $150 million — Jan. 28, 2008 — Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is acquiring Norwegian phone-stack vendor Trolltech in a deal worth about $150 million USD. Expected to close in the second quarter, the acquisition increases the likelihood that Nokia will move beyond its Symbian operating system (OS) toward using Linux in its phones. ...

Linux gains high-performance flash filesystem

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux gains high-performance flash filesystem — Jan. 29, 2008 — Flash filesystem and management software specialist Datalight has ported its commercial flash filesystem to Linux. The Bothell, Wash. firm claims that Datalight Flash File System for Linux offers 400 percent faster write performance and five times faster mount speeds than JFFS2. ...

FOTA vendor demo's Linux-based concept phone

And here I thought the greenphone was dead.

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com FOTA vendor demo's Linux-based concept phone — Jan. 29, 2008 — Red Bend Software will demonstrate a concept phone supporting partial, differential firmware updates over-the-air. Based on Trolltech's open Linux-based Greenphone, together with Red Bend's vRapid Mobile FOTA (firmware over-the-air) stack, the "Mast" phone will be shown at the Mobile World Congress 2008, February 11-14, in Barcelona. ...

Pnadora - open up Linux Gaming?

Ok - so it not a phone - but a cool looking device based on a phone chip.

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Could Pandora open up Linux games? — Jan. 29, 2008 — A stealth-mode startup is readying a Linux-based handheld gaming device with WiFi, USB, and a 4.3-inch 800x480 touchscreen. The "Pandora," headquartered at OpenPandora.org for now, runs Linux on a next-generation ARM SoC with integrated OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics processor. ...

Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy

clipped from www.nokia.com Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), a company headquartered in Oslo, Norway and publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Trolltech is a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks. In addition to the key software assets, its talented team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia's software strategy. Nokia aims to continue the development of Trolltech's products and support of new and existing customers. Nokia strives for an open approach to technology that will encourage and support innovation in the industry, enable fast adoption of new technologies and advance healthy competition. Nokia embraces open source technology and will take further the open source development culture found in Trolltech.

Linux phone stack gains predictive typing option

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux phone stack gains predictive typing option — Jan. 17, 2008 — Trolltech has agreed to resell Zi Corporation's predictive typing and auto-correction software for mobile devices with full hardware or software keyboards. The eZiType stack will be available pre-integrated with Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE), through Trolltech's Greensuite third-party ecosystem, Trolltech said. ...

Korean Linux MID boasts digital-TV

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Korean Linux MID boasts digital-TV — A non-profit Korean government-funded research organization has demonstrated a prototype mobile Internet device (MID) based on its Qplus embedded Linux distro. Korea-based Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute's (ETRI's) "Mobile Convergence Communicator" (MCC) boasts 802.11b/g and 3.5G cellular networking, along with digital TV reception and Bluetooth. ...

Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06 — More than four billion embedded systems or devices shipped worldwide in 2006, says a report by Venture Development Corporation (VDC). The market research firm forecasts three years of growth in device shipments, especially for devices with commercial and/or open source operating systems like Windows and Linux. ...

WiMax is off to the races, analysts say

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com WiMax is off to the races, analysts say — The WiMax "user terminal" chipset market will grow from $27 million in 2007 to nearly $500 million in 2012, according to recent market research by In-Stat. Mobile PCs will be the primary driver, but dual-mode cellular/WiMax handsets and other equipment will also drive sales, In-Stat says. ...

Contactless NFC technology delayed, but coming, study says

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Contactless NFC technology delayed, but coming, study says — A contactless payment technology for mobile handsets called Near Field Communication (NFC) is coming to market slower than expected, says ABI Research. Yet while 2008 NFC shipment forecasts have been revised downward, the technology's future is said to be bright. ...

Mot Linux phone boasts soft MMI, haptics

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Mot Linux phone boasts soft MMI, haptics — Motorola's newest Linux phone boasts a soft MMI (man-machine interface) that changes with the phone's mode. The Rokr E8 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS phone with 2-megapixel camera, multi-codec music player, a "full" HTML browser, and unique "haptics" system aimed at providing "tactile response" to virtual keypresses. ...

Two-pound Linux UMPC on sale Jan. 25th

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Two-pound Linux UMPC on sale Jan. 25th — At CES yesterday, Everex formally introduced its gOS 2.0 Linux-powered laptop, the CloudBook Ultra-Mobile PC. eWeek has published an up-to-date profile of the hotly-anticipated UMPC, which will go on sale for $400 at WalMart on January 25th. ...

Linux-based media stack for TI's DaVinci launched

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Linux-based media stack for TI's DaVinci launched — A developer of Linux-based, IP-media applications formally launched its software for Texas Instruments's DaVinci media processor platform. DigiLink Software says its Digital Media Elements (DME) IP-media stack for set-top boxes (STBs) lets television viewers watch and record Internet TV (ITV), including Flash-based content like YouTube. ...

WiFi chip squeezes 802.11n into MicroSD cards

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com WiFi chip squeezes 802.11n into MicroSD cards — Fabless chip vendor Redpine Signals says it is sampling an "ultra low power" 802.11a/b/g/n wireless networking processor suitable for use in MicroSD cards and mobile devices. The Linux-compatible LiteFi RS9110 utilizes advanced power management techniques spread over system, algorithm, and circuit levels, according to the company. ...

Penguinistas hack Android onto real hardware

clipped from www.linuxdevices.com Penguinistas hack Android onto real hardware — Several actual hardware devices have been hacked to run Google's Java-based Android software stack, according to blogs and forum posts around the Internet. Although Google's preview release last fall included a software emulator based on Qemu, real hardware may provide a better target for application development. ...