Link: Microsoft ‘year away’ from single-core phone OS | The Register.
Microsoft’s phones need a baseband processor running the GSM stack, and a separate application processor core running Windows Mobile OS.
The single-core phone operating system makes the device a lot, lot cheaper to produce. Cheap is what you need when you want to put Windows Mobile OS on the same playing field as Nokia et al.
With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?
