Everyone knows that the Intel Atom dominates the netbook market, but what about smartphones? As it turns out, Intel has some pretty major plans in the smartphones market. The Moorestown system will be on a chip and the Moblin OS will be available in the early 2010. This will give them a good starting point for their march towards market domination.
The Moorestown platform is a SoC with 45nm Atom CPU, graphics and video encoder/decoder. It will support all the major mobile phone technologies such as 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and even mobile TV. The Moblin and Maemo are both Linux variants. The Moblin is developed by Intel and tailored specifically for Atom CPUs while the Maemo is developed by Nokia for ARM processor. These two companies collaborated to develop the oFono which is an open source telephony software solution.
Intel is also working with LG on a MID that is powered by Moorestown and runs the Moblin. The MID will feature a voice functionality which will make it seems like a candidate to be the mythical “Intel Phone”. LG is also working with Ericsson to bring 3G capabilities to the MID. Intel did a short demo of the new Moblin UI, which is designed for multitasking. It organizes things into “zones”, which group a programs windows but also allow you to drag a window from one zone to another.
Here are two videos on the demonstration of the Moblin OS by Intel:
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