I hadn’t actually realised that ARM were NOT in part of Google’s Open Handset Alliance but I guess, as a company that focuses on licensing designs out to third party’s, they are slightly more removed from the end product than most. They will be getting a little bit closer next week though as they’ve been inviting people to see Android running on their cores at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Could we see, for the first time, a Webkit-based browser and multimedia playbock on a Cortex A8-based device? I really hope so as it’s going to give indications of how fast the experience is going to be.
Image from the unofficial Google Operating System blog
Android+Cortex v Ubuntu Mobile+Silverthorne. These two combinations of CPU and OS will be the ones to watch out for in terms of Mobile Internet devices in 2008.
UPDATE: ARM have issued a press release that confirms the news. The ‘visually stunning’ Mobile Internet Devices (their words!) will be on show and will be using Cortex A8 processors.
More info at Crave.net
