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Coming is an open source cell phone
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 17 July 2008, 17:18 IST
Pune: Mobile space, especially cell phone, is always an area where innovations are relentless. Even before hustle and bustle over iPhone end, the beta testing for a Linux operating system-based mobile handsets is already under way.
Brain child of the California-headquartered Azingo, the first commercial phone based on this operating system is expected to hit the European markets by the first half of 2009 and the Indian shores by 2010.
"The project had been going on for the past three years and the first commercial shipment is expected to be rolled out for the European market," said Mahesh Veerina, Chief Executive Officer, Azingo. The company is already in talks with the vendors for the shipping of the mobile handsets.
Mahesh added that the research and development had been handled out of its two development centers, Pune and Hyderabad. The applications have been developed out of the Hyderabad center while the embedded software and kernel from the Pune centre.
Azingo mobile platform would provide customers and application developers an environment to develop applications in C and C++ software, Java and Web applications using Java script.
It would also provide complete application lifecycle management to design, build, test, debug and deploy new or modified applications on target mobile phone hardware. Mahesh said Nokia currently ships out about 1.2 billion handsets per year. The total market is around 1.5 billion a year which includes the top-end models such as Blackberry and the low-end basic phones. This is estimated to increase to seven billion handsets within the next five years.
