Intel announces Moblin 2.1 for phones
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 22nd 2009 12:48PM
posted Sep 22nd 2009 12:48PM
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Iphone will be soon be R.I.P. unless Apple get their act together soon, so many competition now.
Apple has to large of a blindly following fanbase for the iphone to die.
Competition yes, but on what basis do you believe things like Moblin to be a threat?
@krische
While Apple (and microsoft, etc.) have their fanboys, the iPhone has been winning over many very technically adept people who, previously, may have bought a Blackberry or Windows Mobile phone. Being flashy or trendy generally doesn't work in such cases, so it obviously has merit beyond simply being Apple.
Apple does not have a fanbase.
Apple is a bloody religion!
It´s got fanatic believers ... they would commit suicide, if Apple says so.
@huhu
They wouldn't have to, Steve just has to flip the kill switch and watch the iPhones go boom! There's probably nothing to worry about though, I'm pretty sure he'd only do that to people who are rude to him.
In other news, many reports of French iPhone explosions have been flooding in...
Many tried or said oh this is the next "iPhone Killer" but the Apple community keep's it strong as well as the industry. So to answer your question there is no R.I.P for iPhone unless it's called iPhoniack :)
@JoeHobot
CEO:http://www.mwd.com
Nope. It is Windows Mobile that is getting killed and this effects Windows Mobile
more than anything else. iPhone with iTunes ecosystem is unmatched.
This will be awesome!
And this will be awesome 100x more times than iPhune....
This is From INTEL, INTEL , INTEL...
awfully short articles today...
If this was an apple presentation expect like 100 times longer articles.
Intel making the phone or just the software?
Do we really need another contender in the mobile phone OS market? And is this X86 only? Because there's no way I'm ever buying an Atom based phone. They might as well ship the thing with a wall plug where the battery would normally go.
+1 about the battery. My first thought exactly.
Outside of Android and the iPhone mobile phone OS's suck ass. So why not introduce something new and potentially better than the other two?
iPhone, android and WebOS
iphone,Android,WebOS, Maemo and new Symbian. ;)
Symbian, Blackberry, iPhone, Android, webOS, Maemo, LiMo, Openmoko... hmm... what else is there...?
Oh, I'm sorry, were we not just trying to list all the smartphone platforms we could think of? My bad!
This looks interesting, wonder whether any maemo developers will switch to moblin seeing as maemo 6 is moving away from gtk and moblin is using it.
Isn't gtk considered hard to code, hence Nokis and Symbian are moving away from it? Ignore my ignorance!
Do not want.
Nobody's telling you to want it.
Welcome to the... erm... 8th place phone operating system. Now behind iPhone, Blackberry, S60, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Android, and Maemo.
Maybe if they're lucky Moblin will be the Amiga of smartphone OS's.
iPhone OS is first in what? Phones with Symbian OS probably outnumber it 100:1 and non crappy Symbian phones outnumber it at least 10:1
Btw, I shifted back to Symbian from iPhone coz im comfortable with it and pls dont say that the majority of the world is stupid .
100:1 is a bit too much i guess:)....I got carried away:)
deccangroove@
Your IQ is too low to understand how the market works. Symbian has been around
long before iPhone. The market share doesn't change overnight. You go by
the growth rate and trend. Symbian market share is shrinking while iPhone is
growing by leaps and bounds. iPhone has the highest growth rate which is
what Beau is trying to say.
competition is always good...
Wow, its already 2.1? I have never even seen before version 1...
Atom based phones, that's a really niche market. Almost like HTC Shift like niche.
I wonder what the battery life is compared to existing ARM-based phones.
Keep in mind they said "Atom-based", and not "the 1.6GHz Atom that all netbooks use". They could easily clock this guy down and sip power. Heck, cut the clock speed in half (800MHz) and you still have enough power left to run Windows XP fairly adequately. I think it's fairly safe to say that an Atom-based phone would likely see a die-shrink and clock-down.
Why call it v2.1? Shouldn't it be 2.0. Does this mean that this is the new interface for netbooks too? Confusing.
Atom for phones!
x86 consume to much power compare to ARM CPU, even with Atom (which is ULV) the power consumption is still high for mobile phone!.
ARM is doing very good in the mobile area and i will take Snapdragon or Tegra over Atom any day.
Atom based phone? Can't see that happening. It's way too hot even on a netbook, let alone a tiny compact device with zero airflow. ARM is giving intel a run for its money.
I'd be more interested if I knew when the bugs for moblin 2.0 were going to be fixed.. (anyone know?)
competition is always good...
That be pretty cool a dual core atom phone, that give a battery life that is no worse than the competition. Then we could really see mobile internet that is pretty much what we are use to with our computers.
Hi,
The positive side: competition is welcome.
Microsoft and Compaq introduced the iPaq with Windows CE (long time ago). Since that time until iPhone no significant hardware/software change was made in handhelds.
Thanks Apple for the revolution in handheld scene.
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dammit! his comment got deleted... now mine doesnt make any sense =_=
Once HTML5, WebGL, etc. are widely supported by mobile web browsers, developers will be able to deliver sophisticated, cross-platform web apps to any smartphone running any OS.
Then, people will simply choose a smartphone that delivers the user experience they like, since the same apps will run on all of them.
Nvidia's Tegra will be spanking Intel's Atom, so don't know why people are so jazzed over this.