Intel, Nokia to develop mobile Linux devices

The giant semiconductor Intel, and giant mobile phones, Nokia today announced they have formed a strategic alliance. This is for both firms to join forces to develop a new generation of Intel x86 architecture, but also chipset, designed for mobile devices. The idea is to combine the performance of the PC to the speed of wireless broadband today.

By coming together to define a new mobile platform, the two companies hope to go beyond the success of smartphones, laptops and other netBook by creating new devices and new mobile services. But Intel and Nokia are unfortunately not yet able to speak of concrete products since the announcement should not give their first fruits for a few months.

Meanwhile, Intel announced it has licensed technology HSPA/3G Nokia to include in future mobile products. We can thus think that Intel will offer future solutions Centrino native with 3G connectivity. The rest shows the depth that this new license, does not affect its strategy towards technology WiMax, a technology in which Intel still believes.




In September last year, Nokia said the next version of Maemo would incorporate 3G technology for the first time — until now, devices such as the N810 have relied on Wi-Fi for their data connectivity.

"Enabling common technologies across the Moblin and Maemo software environments will help foster the development of compatible applications for these devices – building on the huge number of off-the-shelf PC compatible applications," the companies said in the statement. "The open source projects will be governed using the best practices of the open source development model."

The companies also said they will use open source technologies from Mozilla, oFono, ConnMan, X.Org, BlueZ, D-Bus, Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio.