Great synthesis on the Google Phone: The Google Phone: Fact, Fiction and a Huge Link List
Thomas Menguy | May 10, 2007Really great article to read: The Google Phone: Fact, Fiction and a Huge Link List (via TomSoft) .
I especially been ..not so surprised… about their supposed software stack:
Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov cites an inside source, who reports the Switch will be “Blackberry-like,” with a “C++ core,” “optimized Java, [and] vector-based presentation,” as well as VoIP and other services.
The Google Phone: Fact, Fiction and a Huge Link List
The vector-based presentation seems to come from their Skia buyout:
One, Skia touted itself as a developer of 2D graphic software for mobile devices, set-top boxes and what it called emerging products.The language was contained on a Web site once operated by Skia. Skia’s first product, SGL, is a portable graphics engine capable of rendering state-of-the-art 2D graphics on low-end devices such as mobile phones, TVs, and handhelds, the Web site said. SGL is feature-set compatible with existing 2D standards, making it ideal to serve as a back-end for public formats such as SVG, PDF, and OpenVG. SGL is licensed as source or binary, and can be customized to match specific HW/framebuffer requirements..
The java vision from the Danger guys they hired, the kernel is probably Linux….
Hum I really don’t get why Java is needed in the middle (Savaje anyone??), but here we go with a brand new complete embedded platform!…over crowded? we can say so. (MS, Symbian, Qtopia, Motorolla linux, Access, Open Moko, Palm, Ajar, Brew, EMP, MSX gaxoo, Open-Plug (in some extent), SKT Linux, Sky Mobile Media, Sasken and so on)
Anyway, for sure it won’t be a low cost phone! … but we are all waiting for it.
Will it be open? What kind of hardware? Is it a complete phone software stack or a companion framework? for sure a server side is on the works….so a next generation of On Device Portal?
