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January 20, 2010
Why wait – Mobile virtualization now!
Recently a competitor announced plans for the development of a dual-OS smartphone in 2011. Why wait?
In early 2009 we launched the world’s first dual-OS commercial single-core smartphone. And that’s just the first of many to come.
To quote Chriz Hazelton from 451 Group, “The Motorola Evoke QA4 is the first commercially available phone or smartphone to run two operating systems on a single core processor. This avoids the higher bill of materials (BOM) cost for the device that would come with using two processors.”
Check out the 451 Group report that outlines how the OKL4 Microvisor enabled mobile virtualization on the Motorola Evoke QA4, which runs the proprietary Qualcomm stack next to a full instance of Linux all on a single-core ARM926 processor.
As the economy set the world straight in 2009, many of us have become value shoppers. Mobile virtualization makes it easy for handset OEMs and operators to provide cool smartphones for a lower price tag, extending value through out the mobile wireless ecosystem.
451 Group Market Insights Report – Open Kernel Labs launches first dual-OS single-core commercial smartphone
If you want to learn a bit more about how we reduced BOM cost by $46.unit check out the Mobile Handset Teardown Whitepaper
Posted by Marti Konstant on January 20 at 09:38 AM
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