Samsung to Develop Own Smartphone OS?

Rumor has it that Samsung is planning to stop making phones running Windows Mobile, Symbian and Linux and developing its own Smartphone OS. The OS is supposedly going to have an MPEG-based engine, 3D acceleration and MP4 encoding/decoding built right into the OS. This new Smartphone OS will be running on a phone with a custom-made dual-core processor that will include ‘Java-on-a-Chip’.

Smartphones are only now becoming very popular in the Indian market, owing to falling prices and also ready availability of a wide variety of applications immediately after buying a phone. Capable phones like Treos and Blackberrys are less popular because of application availability—an area dominated by Symbian OS Series 60 and Windows Mobile. The addition of yet another OS with its own initially sparse set of applications is likely to hinder mass adoption of phones based on that OS. But every OS has its own set of flaws and advantages, let’s just hope Samsung’s new OS has more of the latter.