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Nokia's mobile phone of the future (2) Tweet
Friday, May 7, 2010
Another concept animation of how Nokia phones could develop in the future, this time showing off a cool touchscreen user interface.
Labels: Concepts , Nokia , Videos
Labels: Concepts , Nokia , Videos
Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Video Review! Part 2 Tweet
Here's a quick and dirty hands-on video review of the Android multi-touch tablet prototype (Android ipad). Yes, it does Adobe flash and air well.
Labels: Android , Other mobile phone brands , Videos
Labels: Android , Other mobile phone brands , Videos
Motorola buys own mobile Linux firm Tweet
Cracks in the Android?
Motorola has bought a mobile Linux company, according to an industry source, potentially busting its monogamous relationship with Google's Android and undercutting a mobile Linux effort that Motorola helped found.
The handset manufacturer and Google Android partner has purchased Azingo, maker of a Linux operating system for smartphones that gives you touch-based screen input, features a WebKit-based browser, works with Adobe Systems' Flash, and comes with an SDK.
Azingo is a privately held firm based in India, with offices in Silicon Valley and South Korea. It's understood the company's full team of several hundred engineers have transferred to Motorola along with its management.
News of the purchase leaked after an Azingo engineer updated his LinkedIn profile (below). This was picked up here, and an industry source has confirmed with The Reg Thursday morning that the deal had gone through.
Yogish at Motorola
The acquisition apparently closed in April. A Motorola spokesperson declined to comment, saying the company does not comment on rumor and speculation. Significantly, she added that Motorola "remains focused on Android."
One industry source described the Azingo team as "hardcore mobile Linux developers" capable of building and supporting any Linux on a phone.
The deal will potentially help Motorola staff up on Linux expertise and follows similar acquisitions of Wind River, MontaVista, and Palm by Intel, Cavium Network, and Hewlett-Packard respectively.
Owning Azingo should give Motorola more options in working with Linux on mobile as it now has more skills on-board plus its own mobile Linux operating system.
That means Motorola can reduce its dependency on Google. Motorola is the largest maker of Android phones in the US thanks to its heavily promoted Droid. But according to one report, the company was "particularly miffed" by Google's decision to compete against the Droid with its own Android offering - the Nexus One - sold from the company's own site, after Motorola and carrier Verizon spent $100m to promote their Droid.
Last month, Google quietly shelved plans for a version of Nexus One on Verizon's network - the largest mobile network in the US - apparently responding to pressure from Verizon.
Motorola's Azingo deal also bodes ill for the LiMO Foundation, whose members include Vodafone, Samsung, Panasonic, and Verizon. Azingo is listed as a core LiMO member, but in 2009, Motorola walked off the board of the consortium that it helped found in 2007 and downgraded its membership, saying it was going to focus on Android instead of LiMO.
At the time, Motorola said in a statement: "The Android platform gives it a richer, more consistent foundation with strong support for the ecosystem and developer community."
It's difficult to see how or why Motorola will want Azingo engineers to continue participating in LiMO's rival work, Azingo helped build the Vodafone 360 Service for H1 and M1 LiMO handsets from Samsung last year.
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Labels: Linux , Motorola , Other mobile phone brands
Motorola has bought a mobile Linux company, according to an industry source, potentially busting its monogamous relationship with Google's Android and undercutting a mobile Linux effort that Motorola helped found.
The handset manufacturer and Google Android partner has purchased Azingo, maker of a Linux operating system for smartphones that gives you touch-based screen input, features a WebKit-based browser, works with Adobe Systems' Flash, and comes with an SDK.
Azingo is a privately held firm based in India, with offices in Silicon Valley and South Korea. It's understood the company's full team of several hundred engineers have transferred to Motorola along with its management.
News of the purchase leaked after an Azingo engineer updated his LinkedIn profile (below). This was picked up here, and an industry source has confirmed with The Reg Thursday morning that the deal had gone through.
Yogish at Motorola
The acquisition apparently closed in April. A Motorola spokesperson declined to comment, saying the company does not comment on rumor and speculation. Significantly, she added that Motorola "remains focused on Android."
One industry source described the Azingo team as "hardcore mobile Linux developers" capable of building and supporting any Linux on a phone.
The deal will potentially help Motorola staff up on Linux expertise and follows similar acquisitions of Wind River, MontaVista, and Palm by Intel, Cavium Network, and Hewlett-Packard respectively.
Owning Azingo should give Motorola more options in working with Linux on mobile as it now has more skills on-board plus its own mobile Linux operating system.
That means Motorola can reduce its dependency on Google. Motorola is the largest maker of Android phones in the US thanks to its heavily promoted Droid. But according to one report, the company was "particularly miffed" by Google's decision to compete against the Droid with its own Android offering - the Nexus One - sold from the company's own site, after Motorola and carrier Verizon spent $100m to promote their Droid.
Last month, Google quietly shelved plans for a version of Nexus One on Verizon's network - the largest mobile network in the US - apparently responding to pressure from Verizon.
Motorola's Azingo deal also bodes ill for the LiMO Foundation, whose members include Vodafone, Samsung, Panasonic, and Verizon. Azingo is listed as a core LiMO member, but in 2009, Motorola walked off the board of the consortium that it helped found in 2007 and downgraded its membership, saying it was going to focus on Android instead of LiMO.
At the time, Motorola said in a statement: "The Android platform gives it a richer, more consistent foundation with strong support for the ecosystem and developer community."
It's difficult to see how or why Motorola will want Azingo engineers to continue participating in LiMO's rival work, Azingo helped build the Vodafone 360 Service for H1 and M1 LiMO handsets from Samsung last year.
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Labels: Linux , Motorola , Other mobile phone brands
Did Motorola Buy a Mobile Operating System? Tweet
Motorola is finding success with its Google Android-powered Droid, but the handset maker’s co-CEO has previously indicated that he wants Motorola to have its own mobile operating system and supporting ecosystem. It may have found one, in the form of a Linux-based platform from Azingo. Android and Me notes that LinkedIn now shows an Azingo engineer as being employed by Motorola, potentially indicating that Motorola has purchased Azingo. Such an acquisition would provide Motorola with greater control over software offerings of future handsets, but more importantly, would help the company differentiate itself from competitors.
With such differentiation however, comes the challenge of creating a thriving ecosystem. By using Android for smartphones, Motorola currently enjoys the benefits of the Android developer community and the Android Market. If Motorola were to strike out on its own with a brand-new OS, however, it would lose those important benefits. And Motorola co-CEO, Sanjay Jha, clearly recognizes this, noting on the company first-quarter earnings call:
“I’ve always felt that owning your OS is important, provided you have an ecosystem, you have all the services and you have an ability and the scale to execute on keeping that OS at the leading edge. And I continue to believe that at some point, if we have all of those attributes, that owning our own OS will be a very important thing.”
Azingo’s mobile platform, which debuted in February of this year, is based on web standards for use on touchscreen devices and uses web runtimes for widgets. So if Motorola has indeed purchased the company, it could find itself able to quickly attract programmers that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to develop mobile software for the Azingo platform. Such an approach is a growing trend in the mobile space — Palm does it with webOS and the Symbian Foundation recently adopted the same web standards usage for mobile app development.
An early look at Azingo’s mobile platform from the 2009 Mobile World Congress shows a fairly robust set of widgets, a WebKit browser, extensive application suites and even support for Flash Lite. Essentially, Azingo Mobile 2.0 is a full smartphone platform on its own, even without third-party software. There’s also specific mention of an App Store for Azingo apps, so if Motorola did purchase the company, it may have acquired not just a new mobile operating system, but the foundation of a supporting ecosystem as well.
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Labels: Motorola , Videos
With such differentiation however, comes the challenge of creating a thriving ecosystem. By using Android for smartphones, Motorola currently enjoys the benefits of the Android developer community and the Android Market. If Motorola were to strike out on its own with a brand-new OS, however, it would lose those important benefits. And Motorola co-CEO, Sanjay Jha, clearly recognizes this, noting on the company first-quarter earnings call:
“I’ve always felt that owning your OS is important, provided you have an ecosystem, you have all the services and you have an ability and the scale to execute on keeping that OS at the leading edge. And I continue to believe that at some point, if we have all of those attributes, that owning our own OS will be a very important thing.”
Azingo’s mobile platform, which debuted in February of this year, is based on web standards for use on touchscreen devices and uses web runtimes for widgets. So if Motorola has indeed purchased the company, it could find itself able to quickly attract programmers that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to develop mobile software for the Azingo platform. Such an approach is a growing trend in the mobile space — Palm does it with webOS and the Symbian Foundation recently adopted the same web standards usage for mobile app development.
An early look at Azingo’s mobile platform from the 2009 Mobile World Congress shows a fairly robust set of widgets, a WebKit browser, extensive application suites and even support for Flash Lite. Essentially, Azingo Mobile 2.0 is a full smartphone platform on its own, even without third-party software. There’s also specific mention of an App Store for Azingo apps, so if Motorola did purchase the company, it may have acquired not just a new mobile operating system, but the foundation of a supporting ecosystem as well.
source
Labels: Motorola , Videos
Azingo at a Glance Tweet
Azingo provides next-generation mobile phone software that delivers Internet-enabled user experiences to entertain, inform and enrich the lives of individuals worldwide.
Azingo uniquely offers a one-stop solution for commercializing new mobile phone products that significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for silicon vendors, handset manufacturers, and operators.
Labels: Linux , Other mobile phone brands
Azingo uniquely offers a one-stop solution for commercializing new mobile phone products that significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for silicon vendors, handset manufacturers, and operators.
Labels: Linux , Other mobile phone brands
Retro Sci-Fi Trek Communciator Gadget Case- Fits iPhone iTouch Eris Hero and More Tweet
Description:
A throw back to old school sci-fi with this retro Trek communicator. My own personal design and adaptation of the classic Trek communicator
A great way to keep scratches and marks off your electronics igadgets and cell phones. A full color image is printed on front and back and bonded to materials creating a matte finish exterior, black scratch free felt inside. Hand washable with cold water and mild soap.
Each Case is Uniquely hand cut, assembled and created by me and then machine stitched.
Measures:
3.25 width x 5.15 length (8.3 cm x 12.7 cm)
(pictures shown with Apple iPhone G3)
Will Fit:
iPhone, 3G, 3Gs
iTouch 1st gen, 2nd gen, 3rd gen
iPod Classic
Zune HD
Palm Pre, Env2
Nokia 5235,5800,5230
Eris Droid HTC or Hero HTC
Various other similar sized electronics and phones
Don't know what iPod you have? Check your model here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353
Comes carded and sealed in plastic.
Sherry :)
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Many thanks to www.iPhoneSavior.com for being the first to feature our Star Trek Communicator iPhone case.
From my very first felt communicator to my latest incarnation! Check out iPhoneSavior.com!
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Labels: Clones and ripoffs , Miscellaneous , Other mobile phone brands
A throw back to old school sci-fi with this retro Trek communicator. My own personal design and adaptation of the classic Trek communicator
A great way to keep scratches and marks off your electronics igadgets and cell phones. A full color image is printed on front and back and bonded to materials creating a matte finish exterior, black scratch free felt inside. Hand washable with cold water and mild soap.
Each Case is Uniquely hand cut, assembled and created by me and then machine stitched.
Measures:
3.25 width x 5.15 length (8.3 cm x 12.7 cm)
(pictures shown with Apple iPhone G3)
Will Fit:
iPhone, 3G, 3Gs
iTouch 1st gen, 2nd gen, 3rd gen
iPod Classic
Zune HD
Palm Pre, Env2
Nokia 5235,5800,5230
Eris Droid HTC or Hero HTC
Various other similar sized electronics and phones
Don't know what iPod you have? Check your model here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353
Comes carded and sealed in plastic.
Sherry :)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Many thanks to www.iPhoneSavior.com for being the first to feature our Star Trek Communicator iPhone case.
From my very first felt communicator to my latest incarnation! Check out iPhoneSavior.com!
source
Labels: Clones and ripoffs , Miscellaneous , Other mobile phone brands
Introducing the Dell Aero Smartphone Tweet
The lightest Android™ smartphone ever coming soon to the nation's fastest 3G network!
* Share your life in a snap. Pictures from the 5 MP camera can be quickly and easily uploaded to Flickr®, Facebook®, Picasa™, YouTube and TwitPic.
* Watch media come to life on the 3.5" nHD display
* Stay connected with social networking apps fully integrated into your phonebook and synched to your calendar!
* Enjoy PC-like web browsing experience with Flash Lite® support for streaming audio and video content
* Connect to 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots
* Navigate using the onboard GPS system while talking hands-free
* Google Mobile Services supported on Aero.
Android™ market place
YouTube™
Google Maps™
Google Talk™
Gmail™
Google™ search
Labels: Android , ATT , Other mobile phone brands
* Share your life in a snap. Pictures from the 5 MP camera can be quickly and easily uploaded to Flickr®, Facebook®, Picasa™, YouTube and TwitPic.
* Watch media come to life on the 3.5" nHD display
* Stay connected with social networking apps fully integrated into your phonebook and synched to your calendar!
* Enjoy PC-like web browsing experience with Flash Lite® support for streaming audio and video content
* Connect to 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots
* Navigate using the onboard GPS system while talking hands-free
* Google Mobile Services supported on Aero.
Android™ market place
YouTube™
Google Maps™
Google Talk™
Gmail™
Google™ search
Labels: Android , ATT , Other mobile phone brands
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