14 DAY TRIAL // MontaVista Software, a leading provider of Linux for intelligent devices and communications infrastructure has developed two new and advanced smartphones that will be released in Italy.
The new smartphones, iGO730 and LinAP have been designed by Italian manufacturer Enteos that is a specialist in the development of advanced mobile phones and supplies OEMs and network operators, such as TIM with such handsets.
Enteos expects the products to attract business customers that require mobile broadband, e-mail and office productivity applications. Its products typically incorporate features that other manufacturers of such handsets haven't yet adopted.
The new phones combine 3G, WiFi and VoIP capabilities, thus requiring a highly stable and scalable software that enables easy application development. MontaVista, with customers as Motorola, Panasonic, LG and NEC, is the most widely used provider of Linux software on the mobile phone market, as well as the fastest growing commercial OS provider.
Enteos chose MontaVista Linux Consumer Edition instead of other more widely used Oss like Symbian or Windows Mobile because this OS allows the easy porting of application code from multiple different application developers and service providers.
Massimo Zanzi, CEO of Enteos, said: "The advantage with MontaVista is that you get an open platform - because it is an open-source product - that is also scalable. Our handsets, which use the powerful i.MX21 processor from Freescale Semiconductor, are leading-edge products; they offer an incredibly demanding combination of features".
"To have such advanced features running simultaneously, without failing and without costing the mobile operator money in downtime, you need an absolutely solid platform. That's what you get with MontaVista Linux, with the added benefit that you can modify the kernel at will to optimise applications ported from application developers and other mobile operators."