Thread: Nokia Plan B
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zimon is offline zimon
2011-02-15 , 11:38
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Originally Posted by alcalde View Post
WP7 is getting multitasking, hardware accelerated HTML5 (which blows away iPhone 4 in the YouTube video) and several other updates this year. When it lands on Nokia phones it automatically becomes the #2 mobile OS as numerous tech articles point out today. Microsoft is pouring billions into this, etc., etc., etc. All the factors look positive and this pessimism is starting to get ridiculous;
Does WP7 support multi-core CPUs? Is it even written thread-safe so it would be possible in the future?

All the high-end phones from Barcelona this week have dual-core CPUs with Android.

At least Meego would have multi-core support.

What the plan B misses still, is a question of Android platform having two years of ahead start of number of applications available.

Plan B should maybe consider having Dalvik VM in Meego so Meego-phone would immediately have applications over critical mass and Meego-people could concentrate on OS and GUI 110% at first. The Qt-applications will come later if there is a need, but first being able to run lots of Android-apps top of Meego would be an advantage! It could be either Alien Dalvik (the license per phone surely costs less than license for WP7) or FOSS Dalvik in later time if that is developed.