VMware developing dual OS smartphone virtualisation
- 07 December, 2009 11:54
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Another decisive factor, Krishnamurti said, was that smartphones would very quickly outnumber PCs. Citing Gartner and IDC figures, he said about 150 million smart phones were sold globally in 2008. BY 2014 this figure was estimated to grow to 600 million.
“That will be about two or three times the number of PCs being sold every year, so it’s a big market,” he said.
Currently VMware has selected a US, European and was in the process of selecting an Australian carrier, to begin prototyping phones for enterprise beta testing in 2011. Mass production of the virtualised smartphones is slated for 2012, Krishnamurti said.
The Microsoft vision Pouring water on the idea of smartphone virtualisation, Zane Adam, Microsoft’s head of virtualisation said the company had seen little or no interest from the market.
“I have seen all the scenarios [for phone virtulasition] but customers aren’t asking us; we’re it seeing the demand,” he said. “When we see enough demand from the market that it can be massively adopted, that where Microsoft comes in; so we can drive that adoption. To date we haven’t see that.”
Issues around the quality of the user experience of virtualised operating systems could prove to be a stumbling block to adoption, Adam said.
“As a mobile device user, do I want multiple different devices loading on your phone? The user experience changes with every mobile device and the features are different,” he said. “I’m tied to my mobile device because my email an everything is tied to my mobile device, every time I change operating system profiles I’m getting different information on my email and all my contacts. It makes me extremely less productive.
“And if I’m on Windows Mobile, then it’s because I made the choice to be on Windows Mobile, and if I’m on Android I’ve made that choice to be on Android… If you look globally and ask how many operators are looking at putting virtualisation across their handsets – it’s still too early in the phase. That’s not to say that we aren’t keeping an eye on it.”
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Comments
Linda Bilorelli
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Many analysts, including Gartner, say that the Windows Mobile phone platform will be discontinued in the next year or so.
Maybe those poor hapless phone users can use VMWare to get Google's Android running on their old and discontinued WinMo phones. Bring them back to life!
Anonymous
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Judging by the way that Windows Mobile strangles the CPU and memory on my mobile, is it any wonder why Microsoft hasn't had a virtualization demand from its mobile clients?
In contrast, Android is quite snappy and responsive on the same device.
Reality Check:
Mobile phones have traditionally little memory (both flash and ram)
Open Source code shares practically everything (in both flash and ram) making resource utilization much more efficient.
Proprietary code does not share (much) code at all, which puts a heavy tax on storage, ram, and cache lines.
Microsoft really needs to rethink their platform design - they're plainly just too inefficient.
Anonymous
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So let me see. Vmware is out in front pushing the envelop, while MS sits back seeing no real future in this area.
Gee, I'm shocked...NOT
Can anyone tell me what really innovative idea has come out out MS since they stole Windows?
Anonymous
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Is this really that useful? I don't think I would ever want to run more than one O/S on my phone. Wouldn't introducing a "profile" concept into the customers choice O/S do the same thing essentially?
Gernot Heiser
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Not sure what all this fuss is about. What VMware is demoing, others have been shipping to end-users for more than a year (and it's made in Oz!) See http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/demo-worlds-first-virtualized-mobile-phone/
Gernot Heiser
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Not sure what all this fuss is about. What VMware is demoing, others have been shipping to end-users for more than a year (and it's made in Oz!) See http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/demo-worlds-first-virtualized-mobile-phone/
Anonymous
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Any chance of a 4+ inch Android mobile virtualising Chromium OS. I guess another option would be to have Chrome as an optional browser app for Andriod.h
Anonymous
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In fact, it is not VMware who is innovating. It is Open Kernel Labs who has ALREADY not just prototyped this but been shipping phones, e.g. Evoke QA4.
MS has conceded since they are losing market share and must stay focused on the enterprise and PC space.
eddieVroom
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Where do you put the Sim? lol
I'd be happy to get a ui for my phone via bluetooth or usb, presented as a 3-d photorealistic virtual device onscreen. With skin options.
phone smart
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Android is a good system and its good that S/E is embracing an existing OS and providing a platform for it. The competition between Apple and Google is a very promising thing for consumers of smartphones, I look forward to seeing what comes out of it.More information about it from http://www.sourcinggate.com/smart-cell-phone-c-174.html