Wistron Shows Montavista Phone (PC Magazine)

Costs for embedded chips has come down - still not anywhere near what Moore's law predicts.
Speed has not gone up, anywhere near what Moore's law predicts. Power consumption is a major
factor. Moore's law does apply to things like flash storage, I note - I have 8GB on my nokia
n800....

I confess to being somewhat disappointed that we aren't seeing more embedded cpus using < 90
nanometer processes at this point.

re:
" for me the big news of google getting involved in the mobile phone market isn't that it's
new for linux to be involved, it's that they may have the money and name recognition to
finally break the stranglehold that the powers-that-be have over the mobile phone market."

I certainly hope so! I remember the major disconnects we had in meeting after meeting with the
major operators in this market... 

...trying to get sensical things like treating voicemail as data, using rss and dropping the
concept of WAP, supporting multiple toolkits and X, etc. They had NIH and revenue_per_call
embedded completely in their every model, not what their customers wanted.

I also particularly bitterly remember battling with TI to free up their omap compiler so
normal people could actually use the DSP. Finally (as part of the openneuros project) - a free
compiler is available for OMAP. It may be too little, too late, as vfp is quite nice and quite
a bit easier to use.

And my whole point to the posting was simply that the article was showing off (and praising)
the Montavista stack, not android. The title was misleading....