Motorola has unveiled the company’s next generation Linux based platform, named MOTOMAGX for mobile phones. The MOTOMAGX is based on Motorola’s earlier Linux based platforms, which delivers new level of openness, flexibility and support for third party applications on Motorola mobile devices.
The company is planning to install Linux on its 60 percent mobile phones in next two years. Motorola has sold more than 9 million mobile handsets with Linux. Now, the model, RAZR2 V8 will come to the United States within next two month as Motorola’s first Linux phone in this country.
MOTOMAGX platform supports a wide range of content created by third-party developers. The company is planning to introduce WebUI, a new platform to support Java ME based applications and native Linux applications environments. The WebUI applications will run on webKit. The native Linux applications is a combination of relevant tools available from Motorola’s MOTODEV Studio integrated development environment, which will enable MOTODEV developers to innovate and accelerate time to market for their applications.
According to Christy Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development at Motorola, MOTODEV Developer network enables software developers to write applications on Linux phones and also allows developers to get their applications on the carrier software and services on mobile devices.
Via: Info World
