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Comment: The race to idle (Score 1) 336

by Dienyddio (#35757632) Attached to: Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles?

Quad core processors will primarily provide better battery life. Most designs will feature cores of mixed processing power allowing most of the chip to be fully powered down when idle or just doing baseband event handling.

When there is real work required firing up the rest of the chip will allow for tasks to be completed very quickly. Once complete the processor can again be ramped back down to a low power state.

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Nokia and Intel merge high-end Linux software

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes "Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile handsets, will merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced software. "This makes a good challenger to (Google's) Android (operating system), allowing the platform to go across devices and making it much more appealing for developers," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi."
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Intel and Nokia launch MeeGo, a new Linux platform

Submitted by andylim
andylim writes "Today Nokia and Intel announced that they are combining Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo, a new mobile platform. According to Nokia, MeeGo is a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, phones, connected TVs and in-vehicle systems."
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Nokia to Make GPS Navigation Free on Smartphones->

Submitted by mliu
mliu writes "In what is sure to be a blow to the already beleaguered stand alone GPS market, Nokia, the global leader in smartphone market share, has released a fully offline-enabled free GPS navigation and mapping application for its Symbian smartphones. Furthermore, the application also includes Lonely Planet and Michelin guides. Unfortunately, the N900, which is beloved by geeks for its Maemo Linux-based operating system, has not seen any of the navigation love so far. With Google's release of Google Navigation for Android smartphones, and now Nokia doing one better and releasing an offline-enabled navigation application, hopefully this is the start of a trend where this becomes an expected component of any smartphone."
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Nokia sues Apple for iPhone patent infringement

Submitted by YouWantFriesWithThat
YouWantFriesWithThat writes "Nokia filed suit Thursday against Apple for patents infringed by the iPhone Details from a Reuters article:

"By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation," Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President for Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia, said in a statement.

Nokia has ten patents that cover different technologies that the iPhone uses and stated that they include: "wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and affect all Apple iPhone models shipped."

The story is developing, but is confirmed by multiple sources."

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Nokia sues Apple for patent infringment in iPhone->

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AVee
AVee writes "Engadget (amonst many others) report that Nokia is sueing Apple because the iPhone infringes on 10 Nokia patents related to GSM, UTMS and WiFi. The press release doesn't contain much detail, it does state that Apple didn't agree "appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property", which sounds like there have been negotiations about those patents."
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