14 DAY TRIAL // Azingo (formerly Celunite), a leading provider of mobile Linux software headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, announced a new open mobile Linux solution for handsets and advanced mobile devices, based on the S3C2442 application processor from Samsung and Azingo Mobile, the company's comprehensive Linux platform software.
Based on LiMo Foundation software, the Azingo/Samsung mobile solution can provide enhanced application and services interoperability for both software developers and cell phone manufacturers. The combined solution from Azingo and Samsung allows handset producers to exploit the advanced user interface and web-enabled application improvements at maximum, while considerably lowering devices costs and speeding up the entire production process.
"Greater broadband availability, Samsung's application processors and Azingo's software combine to deliver exciting multimedia mobile phones," said Mahesh Veerina, Chief Executive Officer at Azingo. "We are delighted to offer the Azingo Mobile open Linux platform with a partner whose cost-effective and small footprint technology is already found today's most innovative, commercially successful mobile products."
The new platform that Azingo and Samsung worked on leverages on Samsung's high-performance, low-power S3C2442 application processor that includes an ARM9 CPU and a complete set of on-board peripherals created in order to reduce the overall system cost.
Azingo Mobile, the company's complete Linux platform, comes with a cutting-edge mobile applications suite, a Linux Kernel specially optimized for mobile needs, advanced and extensive mobile middleware frameworks, as well as an open source-based software development environment that includes various tools to develop elaborated user applications for mobiles. The Azingo platform supports an easy configurable user interface, thus allowing handset manufacturers and carriers to create countless exclusive mobile products from just one software code base, mobile products that can target different market segments.
We're waiting with curiosity to see what the Azingo/Samsung solution can bring and how it will rival Google's Android platform.