Intel who admits that they were late moving into the Smartphone market has a revealed that they are working on a new tool that make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices. The only problem is that very few phone makers use Intel processors.
Intel who admits that they were late moving into the Smartphone market has a revealed that they are working on a new tool that make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices. The only problem is that very few phone makers use Intel processors.
In the US yesterday Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini said “I wish we had started earlier in the phone market, I should have been smart enough to start it seven years ago because we’d be in a good position today, but I wasn’t,” he said.
The new tool has been designed to increase the number of applications available at Intel’s application store, which is called the AppUp Center. Currently several vendors including HP with their WebOS, Samsung with their Bada, Nokia with their Symbian based applications and Blackberry are trying to compete in the application market with Google and their Android Marketplace offering and Apple with their app store applications which are currently running at over 255,000.
Intel, has been trying to win business from handset vendors with its Atom processor, a scaled-down version of its PC chips. It has signed agreements to supply Atom products to Nokia Oyj and LG Electronics Inc. Otellini said smartphones carrying Intel semiconductors will be released next year.
Doug Fisher, vice president of Intel’s Software and Services group and general manager of its Systems Software division told Network World that in the future the application tool could provide a simple way to port applications to Meego, a Linux-based mobile OS developed by Intel and Nokia that was launched earlier this year.
“We’ll get [applications on] AppUp, then Meego and I imagine Windows,” Fisher said. “It’s basically taking the existing applications, finding the ones that are most relevant to end users, and ensuring they get pulled over.”
Intel didn’t say when the tool will be released.
