ARM to show Google phone prototype next week: source
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FRANKFURT/LONDON  - British chip designer ARM   will show a prototype mobile phone based on Google's   Android platform next Monday at the Mobile World  Congress wireless show in Barcelona, a source close to the  company said on Thursday.
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Google Inc  is expected to  announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers  to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall  Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with  the matter.
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(InfoWorld) - The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum planned to release its first mobile phone specifications on Monday, in hopes of encouraging more applications for Linux phones. The specifications, which include a reference model, address book, voice call enabler, text input method application programming interfaces (APIs) and user interface services such as widget sets, were expected to be posted on the LiPS Web site on Monday. The forum, launched in late 2005, is working to standardize a layer of software in Linux phones that will make it easier for developers to create a mobile application once that can operate across many phones. "The reality of the market is it's coincidental that different phones run Linux because an application developer wouldn't be in the position to write something... to work on all of them," said Bill Weinberg, general manager for business development at the LiPS Forum. "The LiPS standard is designed to solve that." The LiPS Forum chose to base the user interface framework on Gnome's GTK user interface toolkit, dealing a blow to Trolltech and showing that the efforts to standardize the mobile Linux industry offer opportunities to some companies while having the potential to shut others out.Â Trolltech offersÂ an application platform and user interface for Linux mobile phones. Weinberg said more companies are using Gnome, however. "Trolltech has done well in the mobile space but we're seeing a trend toward Gnome," he said. Companies that are part of the LiPS Forum including Purple Labs, Access Co., and Open-Plug are all Gnome-based, he said. The forum defined APIs on top of Gnome's GTK, optimizing it for the mobile usage model, he said. The next set of specifications for the forum will deal with functions like instant messaging and allowing users or operators the ability to change the phone's user interface. The third wave of specifications, expected to come out next year, will have more to do with how applications use different phone resources, he said. "These are all things for which there are existing processes but there are too many different ways to do it, so having a set of specifications is important," he said. While a host of global initiatives like the LiPS Forum continue to strive to bring focus to the mobile Linux environment, the U.S. continues to lag behind other regions of the globe in adoption of mobile Linux. China and Japan are the biggest users of Linux phones while the U.S. has a reputation for being "cautious," in part due to the tight control the U.S. operators like to keep on the market, Weinberg said.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Sometimes so much speculation surrounds an event that some might feel it's safe to simply presume it happened at the time predicted. But ARM confirmed to BetaNews it has not produced a portable handset prototype that runs Android.
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to demonstrate its version of a new approach to processor design, with a chip that is expected to offer faster computing and relatively less power consumption.
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The company plans to present a paper this week outlining a new type of memory that could help boost processor performance.
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New platform, old handset Linux specialists a la Mobile has demonstrated Google's Android platform running on a mobile phone handset, an HTC Qtek 9090, and explained how a development house might make money from Android.â¦
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This patent, as well as others, could yield information about company's plans for a "Gphone."
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PalmSource Inc. has finally answered the smart-phone call. The maker of Palm operating systems for handheld computers plans to introduce Tuesday its first version designed specifically for so-called smart phones.
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Analysts take guesses on how the Google phone will operate.
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(InfoWorld) - Palm plans to announce a new type of mobile device on Wednesday as it continues its product-line transition from simple PDAs to more advanced smartphones. Consumer electronics vendors are rushing to develop handsets that offer mobile e-mail and Internet browsing instead of merely calendars and contact lists. Apple added fuel to this fire in January when CEO Steve Jobs announced he would launch the iPhone in June, combining the iPod music player with a digital camera, smartphone, and touchscreen display. Now Palm is telling industry watchers that founder Jeff Hawkins will unveil the new device during his talk at a trade show in Carlsbad, California called D: All Things Digital. Palm is keeping quiet about the details, even declining to brief industry analysts ahead of the announcement. But one possibility is theÂ Linux-based smartphoneÂ that Palm CEO Ed Colligan has promised to release before the end of 2007. Such a device would improve performance compared to Palm's current Treo by running the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, Colligan told analysts at the company's annual investor day in April. Palm will also continue to use Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. In the PDA segment,Â vendors used Windows on 62.1 percent of handsets in the first quarter of 2007, compared to just 0.7 percent for Linux, according to Gartner. By continuing to develop applications on both tracks, Palm hopes to win customers by offering them more options with its Treo smartphone than competitors like Research in Motion's BlackBerry, Motorola's Q, and Samsung's BlackJack. Another possibility for Palm is to re-architect its Treo into a more stylish, consumer-friendly device, said analyst Jack Gold, founder of the research firm J. Gold Associates. "They are being left behind by the likes of BlackBerry and Nokia and Moto as far as device design goes," Gold said. "I wouldn't be surprised to see a new navigation paradigm but not too far away form a standard phone. They don't want to lose their bread and butter clients, who are mostly business users who want an e-mail device."
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ARM is showing a mobile phone based on the Android platform at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Several partner firms will demo prototypes of devices running Android at the Mobile World Congress, Google says.
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SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - Chip designer Arm Ltd.'s new Cortex family of processor cores will help designers of mobile and embedded devices build powerful systems that use less memory, the company said Tuesday at its developer conference.
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TechWeb - The platform is likely to reach consumers before the Open Handset Alliance's Android project, which is the brainchild of Google.
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Company expected to reveal plans for mobile phones, announce a new consortium of some 30 heavy hitters in the wireless industry, sources tell CNET News.com.
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Google Inc expects a number of  companies to demonstrate prototype devices using its much  anticipated Android mobile operating system at the world's  biggest wireless fair next week, a spokesman said on Friday.