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17. February 2010 19:25
Yesterday Intel and Nokia shocked the world by announcing they have teamed up in an attempt to break into the mobile smartphone industry.
In the last few years, smartphones and computer-like devices have become more and more popular as consumers and businessmen have strived to do more on the go. Hundreds of mobile workers use smartphones, such as the iPhone and the Blackberry, everyday and now these two industry giants have joined forces in a bid to break into the market.
At the Mobile World Congress Fair in Barcelona the firms unveiled plans for a new operating system to power smartphones. Nokia are hoping the platform, dubbed the MeeGo, will help to improve it's weak position in the ever expanding smartphone industry. Intel are also hoping the move will finally help it to catch up with the industry leaders after it failed to break into the market on several occasions.
The platform will combine Nokia's Linux Maemo software platform with Intel's Moblin, which is also based in Linux open-sourced software. It's believed the firms decided to work together after seeing the success of Google's Android operating system which is used in a large majority of smartphones and currently holds about 5% of the market.
"They have understood the only way to beat Microsoft, Google and Apple is to do it through scale -- get the platform to more devices," said John Strand, owner and head of Strand Consult.
In similar news, Microsoft launched it's latest Windows Phone 7 yesterday. The handsets will be made by companies including HTC and Sony Ericsson and will feature touch screens which allow fast access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It's believed the main operator will be Orange and it should be available by the end of the year.
Microsoft are hoping this latest model will be more warmly received than the Windows 6.5 Phone which failed to make a big impact when it was released in October 2009.
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