Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Samsung To Develop Linux-based Mobile OS

August 27th, 2009 10:26 PM | by Albert

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Samsung’s Dong-hoon chan, head of mobile device design, confirmed they will be developing their own mobile OS based on the open source Linux OS. Up until now they’ve been using the proprietary Touchwiz interface built on top of mobile OS’s such as Windows Mobile. Could be a smart move by Samsung since Linux has a large, almost fanatical user base that’ll be all too willing to develop cool apps/games…

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Nokia Announces N900 Linux-based Tablet

August 27th, 2009 11:20 AM | by Albert

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Nokia announced their N900 touchscreen tablet, based on Linux-based Maemo software. The sleek, sexy looking N900 features:

  • ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • Up to 1GB application memory
  • OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
  • 32GB storage, expandable to 48GB via microSD
  • WVGA resolution touch screen
  • HSPA and WLAN wireless
  • Physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard

The Nokia N900 will be available this October with a estimated retail price of 500EU.

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Run Android Apps On Linux?

May 27th, 2009 8:27 AM | by Albert

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Ever wanted to run Android apps on your Ubuntu OS? Is it even possible? The folks over at Canonical sure think so because they’re building an Android execution environment that’ll allow Android apps to run on Ubuntu and possibly other Linux distributions. How cool is that? Ubuntu users, pretty soon you’ll be able to have your Cupcake and eat it too.

Note: above image shows Android apps running on Ubuntu Netbook Remix

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