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RFe Linux as a mobile platform (pub)

Smartphone and OS Markets -- financial review.
Review needs some membership, but it's table of content is interesting itself.
http://www.abiresearch.com/products/market_research/Smartphones

Processors:
- Atom (x86)
- ARM

Devices:
- MID (Mobile Internet Device)
- smartphone

OS:
- Symbian
- Windows Mobile
- Palm OS /ACCESS
- RIM
- Linux
- iPhone OS

Projects / platforms / alliances about Linux for mobile:
- Moblin
- Maemo
- LiMo
- OHA / Android
- ACCESS Linux
- OpenMoko

Moblin is a Linux-based software platform fo devices based on Intel Atom.
Research is focused on minimizing energy consumption, boot time, adopting to small screens.
Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9783019417.html?kc=rss
Sample of MID:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6059837915.html
Booting in 5s:
http://moblin.org/projects/fast-boot


Maemo Linux-based platform has been developed by Nokia in collaboration with many open source projects.
http://maemo.org/
http://www.slideshare.net/silpol/nokia-and-maemo-next-iteration-presentation/


LiMo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
(NEC, Panasonic, LG ...)
Android против LiMo: в чем разница?
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=15939


The Access Linux Platform (ALP), sometime referred to as a "next-generation version of the Palm OS".
It includes execution environments for Java, classic Palm OS, and GTK+-based native Linux applications.
http://www.access-company.com/products/platforms/linux/alp_mini.html
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3782477708.html


Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
It's developed by The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies (main is Google).
First official android phone:
http://www.t-mobileg1.com/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6126688892.html
Motorola, LG, Samsung, Asus and others are planning to produce their models soon.
Android may be installed to many existing phones:
clonedroidphone.com
Android includes Dalvik java-machine (developed by Google). We can write programs for it.
Android has an SDK, including emulator.
Google encourage software development by taking The Android Developer Challenge.
SDK tutorial:
http://code.google.com/android/intro/tutorial.html


OpenMoko
"Free Your Phone..."
The idea is, that not only software for a phone is open, but the phone itself.
Schematics is available for everyone to explore and further develop:
http://www.openmoko.com/
Openmoko has launched an educational program about mobile device design at National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8959938447.html?kc=rss
There are examples of devices derived from OpenMoko design.
Handset that can receive datacasting signals:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6565189083.html
Network security testing device:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7711465653.html

And the last thing to boost an imagination:
VMware Brings Virtualization to Mobile Phones:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2180232237.html?kc=rss

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Plans for the further lessons:
It would be nice to go some deeper and experiment with these platforms.

- I'd try to play with Moblin on my notebook
- I'd try to play with Android SDK and emulator
- I propose Jing Fu to explore OpenMoko case.
May be there are some materials on mentioned educational program at National Tsing Hua University.