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Nokia and Intel partner for mobile devices

25 June 2009 10:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Intel and Nokia on Tuesday announced a long-term partnership to develop smartphones and other computing devices that would run on Intel’s microprocessors, giving the chipmaker its first big break into the multibillion-dollar mobile-phone market.

The companies said they are seeking to define a new mobile platform beyond smart phones, netbooks and notebooks to new types of hardware, software and services.

The devices would be based on a mobile version of the Linux operating system. Intel said it would acquire a Nokia HSPA/3G modem IP license for used in future handhelds. The partnership is also expected to expand into other mobile Internet-connected devices, such as netbooks, nettops, in-vehicle information/entertainment, and embedded systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Among the Linux-based technologies, the partners will use Moblin, an Intel-developed open source operating system for smartphones and other mobile Internet devices. Moblin is optimized for Intel’s Atom processor, a low-power chip that’s used mostly in netbooks today. Intel has said for quite awhile that it plans to design future Atom chips for smaller devices, including mobile phones.

Besides Moblin, the company said they would also optimize hardware for Maemo, a Linux-based OS developed by Nokia and currently used in its N810 Internet tablet.

The Moblin and Maemo partnership will also seek improvements in audio and graphics capabilities through the help of other open source technologies. Products such as oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, D-BUS, Tracker, GStreamer, and PulseAudio were named as some of the first projects targeted for development.