Mobile Industry Review » Snapdragon http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Qualcomm helps Android get bigger http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/qualcomm_helps_android_get_bigger.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/qualcomm_helps_android_get_bigger.html#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:06:04 +0000 Steve Kennedy http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/qualcomm_helps_android_get_bigger.html Qualcomm has ported Android to its Snapdragon chipset (well actually Wind River Systems have for Qualcomm) which is used in devices that go beyond phones such as notebooks and other Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).

Wind River will give the (optimised) code back to the Open Handset Alliance in the near future. Much of the porting effort was to ensure Android worked on devices with large screen real-estate.

Qualcomm also ported other variants of Linux and Windows Mobile to its Snapdragon chipset, which is going to be used in various Netbooks being launched this year (especially in the Taiwanese markets).

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