Smartphones and OS

Today we will talk about acquires.

 

Lastly there have been two interesting options

• Palm is selling business or licences of webOS for surviving
• Apple wanted to buy ARM (In my opinion should be illegal)

The first option it’s the most interesting because we have many interesting buyers.

• HTC, which may buy it. Now they said not interested but maybe are waiting for a price drop
• Lenovo, it’s  the shy buyer. The Chinese company it’s waiting the opportunity to grow at USA market.
• ZTE & Huawei, the “cheapy” looking to become important. But after some market quotes they self rejected. They will keep growing in new markets like Cambodia, India and Africa.
• My personnal bet, goes to DELL. The computer manufacturer may “help” Palm and try to offer some special solution where John Dell may grow as well.

 

About Apple & ARM the story was shorter…

 

ARM refused the offer at first attempt!

 

Now preparing news for the lost n found iPhone 4G, webOS and Microsoft devices Kin one and two. But will require some time

What is MeeGo?

In my point of view MeeGo it’s the evolution of Maemo. But joining forces with a big one like Intel.

Intel showed in the past their interest on portable devices some years ago with the MIDs presenting their own device 

Time passed from this large but curious idea and the unique successful device, at least for sales was the ipod touch. The other concepts were rather lazy with sales.

Information about those products was poor and their uses were limited due to a closed interface and OS created by each manufacturer. So, a few years later Intel was wondering how to get more money and where to put more processors and they realised about the need to release a more concrete release.

 

Their error in the past was purposing an idea but nothing else. And most of the devices do not even chose intel processors. So now they come with refreshed ideas and with a main point. Clean all the mess and do the things with order.

 

 

 

Why choose Nokia as a partner?

While most of the brands have agreements with OS, there is only one brand that has developed two main OS. That’s Nokia.

Also as most of you know, the pic on the left it’s the Android symbol. And it seems like Intel do not like too much Google latest move with Chrome OS. A low resources computer that do not depend on hardware so much? It requires good internet but the other specs are not so important.

Nokia it’s the company with biggest sales around the world. So that’s another good reason to work with the Finnish people. So, let’s summarize the points that made Intel chose Nokia

as their partner

1. Nokia has experience in create, develop and improve OS (With Maemo and Symbian). Also Maemo it’s Linux!
2. They are good at development of hardware and with interesting times in produce and ship (Remember the delays at SonyEricsson with Xperia series)
3. They have started working with Capacitive touch screens
4. Already have two stores (before anyone with Maemo)
5. Do not have relationship with Google or Microsoft
6. They do not release as much handsets as Samsung

In my opinion those were the most important points for Intel people. Why not so many models? To avoid doubts about models. Apple showed others the way. Small amount but with interesting options for users, including durability.

 

 

About Microsoft and Google it’s simple, they will not concentrate in other developments

 

What MeeGo offer us?

MeeGo seems to be the replacement for Maemo for future tablet OS,but not only that, they are ambicious. The idea for MeeGo it’s working on the following devices:

 

• Connected TV
• Handheld
• In-Vehicle
• Media phone
• Netbook

 

Meego will be like the Android for Intel powered devices done by Nokia and other gadgets. They learnt from Android and they will offer source code so, maybe other brands may join later.

So nw we have two OS that can be in multiple devices. As we can see intel want to keep with us always!

 

What specific features of Moblin and Maemo are being used in MeeGo?

MeeGo blends the best of Moblin with the best of Maemo, to create a platform for multiple processor architectures covering the broadest range of device segments. MeeGo builds upon the capabilities of Moblin core software platform and reference user experiences, adding the Qt UI toolkit from Maemo. Okay, so much for the official slogan... Exact specification of components is not yet available and we expect that to take place during the next couple of weeks for the critical parts. We hope to be able to publish the current state within days. MeeGo is a genuine merger of the two platforms on component level. The idea is NOT to take major blocks of moblin and maemo and 'glue' them together. How could that work anyway given MeeGo targets? Moblin and maemo have been very close architectural sisters all the time, deriving from common parents in many ways. Already for over one year we have coordinated technology selections and established projects such as connman and ofono to fill the gaps. Because of this history, we expect a relatively smooth merge process.

 

It’s supposed to be possible to use with different architectures not only intel (ARM, AVR…) but, my thoughts are that this OS won’t run as well in ARM than Intel.

 

ETA || Estimated time of Arriving?

Second quarter of 2010. Nowadays we have the first image of how it looks

 

 

It reminds me to the interface of Kin Studio by Microsoft but with not so much mess

 

 

Next to comment will be Palm WebOS

 

There has been a while since I created the last post. Today I’m coming with more info.

 

The new OS in the market that are still under development are BADA by Samsung and MEEGO by Intel&Nokia (For tomorrow).

 

The key that Samsung pretends to acquire with this OS it’s to offer high quality features in a low price device. We understand that the low price it’s up to the operators.

They will try to form a whole community including of course their own application store. Sincerely being a programmer nowadays it’s a mess with so many OS and more to come….

 

Bada it’s similar to Android in the pre-requirements. This OS require a minimal feaures to run it.

Those are:

• 3G & WIFI
• GPS
• Accelerometer
• Screen resolution between WQVGA or WVGA
• Multitouch screen

 

The first stone put in by Samsung it’s called “The challenge”. This is a way to try to move developers/programmers to try to efficiency of their OS and the possibilities by releasing apps even though the own OS it’s not finished yet.

Also at Mobile Word Congress of this year Samsung already presented the first phone with Bada inside.

The Samsung S85000 also known as WAVE. It’s full of technology and, even the design seems to be like Samsung Jet it’s hiding much more. Those are the specs of this smartphone:

 

• General:GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 1900/2100 MHz, EDGE class 10, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2 Mbps
• Form factor:Touchscreen bar
• Dimensions:10.9 mm thin
• Display:3.3" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution, scratch-resistant glass surface
• Platform: Bada OS
• CPU: 1 GHz processor
• Memory: 2GB internal memory, microSD card slot
• Camera: 5-megapixels auto-focus camera, 720p video recording
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with WPS support, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack
• Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate, proximity sensor for screen auto-turn-off, ambient light sensor, FM radio with RDS, DivX/XviD support, multi-touch input and pinch-zooming gestures
• Battery: 1500 mAh battery

It’s curious to see how advanced are Samsung phones. While most of the phones still use LED displays they use in most AMOLED and in this model Super AMOLED. Just for ending check out this video of the incoming displays. Never again broken display!