Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-02-24 , 20:24
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#70
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
You know, I'm really starting to wonder what Microsoft is thinking. With iOS based on Mach (a powerful, scalable kernel), Android based on Linux (a powerful, scalable kernel), and Windows Phone 7 based on Windows CE (an OS built from the ground up for use in embedded hardware), I'm not really liking their chances for competing as all the various handheld devices grow more powerful...
He he. WP is based on Windows Embedded Compact 7 core (eventually). It has two main advantages over Linux/Unix: it is a true real-time kernel, and it can be scaled down. Scaling up is no problem for WP, it already runs on dual core and is true multitasking. Scaling up is a matter of making drivers. But scaling down is impossible with Linux. Theoretically Nokia can use the kernel also on the future versions of the S40 platform, although I doubt that will happen anytime soon, if ever.

But the main advantage is down-scaling for Nokias mass-market devices, sub 200$ range of smartphones and even cheaper.