Wind River, Kyocera team to develop embedded Android systems

Embedded OS vendor Wind River Systems is no stranger to Android -- it's been in the Open Hardware Alliance from the start and we've seen prototype 'droid hardware from the company in the past -- but it looks like it's taking it's first official steps into Google's great wide yonder in partnership with Kyocera to develop a commercial Android reference platform. The two companies are targeting handset manufacturers with their first effort, but it's not totally crazy to expect a wide range of devices will eventually be based on this or similar designs -- we're hearing hints that Android will start showing up in other consumer devices in the next year, and it's certainly a tempting open-source alternative to Windows CE for devices like GPS navigators. That would be a pretty massive shift for the industry -- hopefully we'll see the fruits of this partnership soon.

[skeptical @ Oct 22nd 2008 2:16PM]

Much better than the new MacBook

[MyHeadisFed @ Oct 22nd 2008 2:20PM]

Open source is exciting =]

[Temo @ Oct 22nd 2008 2:38PM]

so... They are making a phone? better than the G1?

If so... Please Hurry Up... I want a phone just for my Att connection.


And no... I REFUSE to get a iPhone

[Canoo @ Oct 22nd 2008 2:55PM]

I think they could fix up the last thing Wind River had put together (white boxy thing). The key layout and the basic outline for the UI they had (dock like thing on the bottom) looked very usable. Gimme nice threaded SMS, a decent email app, and a smooth browser and i would love it to death.

http://gizmodo.com/354849/android-hands+on-video-its-fast-its-still-not-there

[phanbouy @ Oct 22nd 2008 3:47PM]

what's a wind river?

[Valicore @ Oct 22nd 2008 5:21PM]

Why it's a canyon of course!