Stan Beer
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 05:04
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Motorola's new Evoke QA4 is the world's first commercially available
virtualized handset capable of running multiple operating systems,
including Android, on a single ARM processor and will be hundreds of
dollars cheaper than the iPhone and other smartphones. This is the claim of Open Kernel
Labs, the company that provides the OKL4 hypervisor that the new
smartphone will use.
OK Labs told iTWire the new touch screen slider
Motorola phone, available in Q2, will be able to run a Linux OS
(possibly Android) and another real time operating system (RTOS) side
by side on a single ARM processor, dramatically reducing its cost.
According to OK Labs, this will enable Motorola to offer the Evoke QA4
to consumers at a feature phone price, hundreds of dollars cheaper than
most smartphones like the iPhone and Blackerry.
"OKL4’s mobile virtualization solution enabled Linux and an RTOS to run
side by side on a single ARM processor, offering decreased
bill-of-materials (BOM) costs and separation of GPL and proprietary
software code as required by companies’ IP policies," according to OK Labs.
"The isolation provided by OKL4 when running concurrent operating
systems on one processor is the same as running each operating system
on a separate processor."
OK Labs CE Steve Subar told iTWire last week that while the user
experience would be seamless for users, the range pf applications
available through the Evoke QA4 interface will actually be provided by
the concurrently running operating system.
“OKL4’s high performance communication mechanisms enabled Motorola to
provide a seamless, integrated graphical user experience, bridging new
Linux applications and existing legacy RTOS applications,” said Subar today.
According to Subar the Motorola Evoke QA4 heralds a new era of low cost
smartphones, made possible through the use of mobile hypervisor
technology.
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