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Amazon new tablet runs Android - but the reality is that the two giants competing browsers and clients

start cautiously with Nokia.

Remember the outrage when the phone launched Nokia Symbian Windows 7 bus and Osborn's existing product line. Nokia Symbian impasse, causing sales to plunge everyone expected MicroNokia new smartphone.

The company does not stop there.

then presented Meego, the descendants of Moblin for Intel (as in Linux Mobile) Maemo and Nokia's own (also Linux based) as a weapon of the future. This was his murderer Smartphone OS.

However, Nokia has given Meego. The result was a product strategy risky, but very simplified:. An operating system, WP7, instead of three or four versions of Symbian, S40, S60, Symbian ^ 3, and Meego

It's just could not last.

Now we learn that Nokia is developing an operating system called Meltemi, the Greek name of a wind (I do not do this). The new operating system in the objectives and plans to replace the low-range engine dumbphones Nokia S40, AKA cell function.

Thoughts.

First, both WP7 Meego and were and are too heavy for entry-level phones.

Second, Nokia sees a future low-cost, low-margin products. Smartphone nomenclature today is excessive, just north of $ 100, and that before the mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, in our case, receives a share.

For Nokia Q2 numbers, see an ASP (average selling price) of ? 142 ($ 200) smartphone, and a minimum of ? 36 ($ 50) for "phone" feature. In the quarter, Nokia sold 16.7 million smartphones and an impressive dumbphones 71.8M, generating revenues of $ 2.6 2.4by billion respectively. In other words, for all the excitement about moving OS smartphones, Nokia is still a big "feature phone" maker. To keep this business, you must make your smart dumbphone the introduction of expensive equipment. Wall Street Journal Meltemi Story:

"... even for consumers in emerging markets now expect low-end phones function to act as smart phones ''

S40 engine is old and irregular. Cut a branch distro unnecessary''Linux "graft hooks Ovi in ??a Navteq + + Microsoft Bing service and have our own entrance at the operating system of the phone.

Let's see how these efforts as low-cost bread, Chinese handset makers attack Nokia's business to measure - and unofficial -. Mutant Android as OPhone and Caps

We now turn to Samsung and Intel.

obviously inspired by the success of the collaboration with Nokia Meego, the product Tizen strange companions, a new enterprise mobile Linux shared, organized by the Linux Foundation. Unlike Meego, Tizen is based on web standards and other HTML5. Imad Sousou quote, director of Intel Open Source Technology Center in a recent post:

"... why not move Meego We believe that the future belongs to based applications on HTML 5, outside a relatively small percentage of requests, and we firmly believe that our investment should focus on HTML5. HTML5 change means not only touched a Linux running on a website, even one directed to mobile phones, as was Meego. "

Meego was a serious effort by two companies tents - or an admission that could not muster the brain and the courage to do the job alone - the joint venture is a machine Tizen curious. That admission that Intel does not have enough money and engineering talent to develop a mobile operating system? Or dance giant silicon on hot coals, having been burned by the two aborted launches in a row: and Moblin Meego for the likes of Samsung mobile operating systems, can safely be called eclectic. With Android, Bada, Windows 7 by phone and now Tizen, Samsung has a quiver full of operating systems. Samsung is the new Nokia in more ways than one: the unit volume of smartphones and now, four operating systems

We have not finished with Samsung.

now know that it has reached a "definitive agreement" with Microsoft:

Android Smartphone For each fact, cries Uncle Bully Korea and pays royalties to a frenemy even more difficult. HTC and other manufacturers had joints before Samsung does, leading to speculation that Microsoft is conducting a methodical assault on a pocket-a-time on Android. As Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, said: "We have not seen a product that does not infringe our patents Android." The valley had been rumors that Microsoft made more money with Android related to the right author your phone anemic licensing Windows 7. Goldman Sachs is now at an estimate of royalty revenues from Android Microsoft: $ 444m. Much of the change in light of the "cost of sales", most of the company's own Eagles Legal. course, Google cries missing - while the purchase of patents left and right, Motorola include:

"It's the same tactics as we have seen time and again from Microsoft, "the company said in a statement. "If there was no success in the smartphone market, are turning to legal measures to extort profit from the success of others and avoid the pace of innovation. We remain focused on strengthening new technologies and support to partners Android. "

Not everyone buys''

partner support Android

"mush See Foss Patents Florian Mueller blog:.

"If Samsung really believed that Google's acquisition of Motorola's mobility would be useful for the Android ecosystem in general, have waited until the deal closed before the end of the Microsoft license agreement. However, Samsung will probably you can not trust Google. It was decided to approach intellectual property issues Android on your own. "

(The full message is well worth your time Florian easily rises above the crowd of netwalkers pages. Patents if wars are your thing, you can also subscribe to its RSS feed Google Reader or follow on Twitter @ FOSSpatents. And thank you to John Gruber for the direction I approach an article in the Korea Times and homing Foss patents.)

Here in the valley, most of us think that Google will face the consequences.

Especially

Oracle. Microsoft said the game is the intellectual property, the demand for billions of dollars assumptions Oracle against Google (and dangerously close to the series) Java abuse of intellectual property could force the Mountain View "not be evil" The leaders to make painful concessions.
not finished with Android and Google.

We turn now to the end of this week's resistance: new 7-inch tablet Amazon. Kindle fire (The home page is beautiful here. And the total of 51 minutes video of Jeff Bezos are key here.) I was immediately ordered, of course, with a deadline of 17 November. I'll leave a couple of weeks of use and will report my impressions seconds, which feed on the all important word of mouth. equipment RIM playbook looks like a familiar, perhaps because they use the same ODM, Quanta, and display technology that emits light is the same as Amazon mocked ads promoting beautiful reflection of his E-ink. As for the rumor that 7-inch tablet Amazon is just an interim measure for the holiday season, which means that there is a fire Kindle might be more / better in the works, I do not think that holds water . We know that Amazon is not a short term thinker -. As we will see in a moment We return to the home page and to start the fire a little experiment. Click on the link and, depending on your persuasion, press CTRL-F or Apple-F and type "Android" as a search term. In my case, I have two appearances ... Only two. A: "The e-mail additional applications are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android." And, wait, disappeared on me the second I saw in a magazine customer hours, I swear ...

know that fire is built on the Android software, but Amazon does not mention.

As noted by Michael Mace in his blogpost MobileOpportunity or by Google:

"reaction of Google to start the fire speaks volumes about their objectives of fire Kindle Android is based on Android, and Android will run Android applications has been compressed in space battles .. so it is expected that Google would be delighted to have the car Android Amazon. But I could be wrong. Let's look at the Google press release issued today to welcome to the family of Amazon Android. Wait a minute, there is no press release. Ok, look at the Google blog. Nothing. Perhaps a tweet Andy Rubin? dead silence. [...]

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