[vox] [news] World's first single-core Linux phone demoed

[Bill Kendrick]

World's first single-core Linux phone demoed
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8513245752.html

  FSMLabs and Infineon Technologies claim to have achieved the world's
  first demonstration of a Linux mobile phone based on a single
  processor core: a working prototype based on a single ARM9 core
  running FSMLabs's RTLinux real-time Linux OS, along with a functional
  2G/3G (WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM) stack[...]


So why does this matter? :^)

  Current-generation mobile phones based on "complex OSes" such as
  Symbian, Linux, and Windows use two separate processors to run all of
  their embedded software.  An applications processor runs the high-end
  OS, GUI, and user applications, while a "baseband" processor runs a
  low-level RTOS (real-time OS) that handles signal-plane functions such
  as managing the cellular radio and its communications protocols.


In other words, the devices will be cheaper, since they'll have only 1 CPU :)


I, for one, welcome our new Linux phone overlords,

-- 
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/