The not-for-profit organisation behind the Firefox web browser has announced handsets based on its operating system for mobile phones.
Some in the industry talk of mobile phones capable of operating continuously for several weeks before their fuel cells need topping up.
The company has also launched its Android operating system, which powers dozens of mobile phones made by Motorola Inc.
Despite a decrease in sales of semiconductor chips and TVs due to seasonal factors, an increase in profitability in display panels and mobile phones pushed up quarterly operating profit margins by 1.7 percentage points to 12.9 percent.
Motorola has pledged to base most of its new phones on Google's mobile operating system, Android.
Executives from Research in Motion have gathered for a six-city, simultaneous launch of BlackBerry 10, a mobile operating system that will power a new series of phones (and who knows what else).
According to TechCrunch, the agreement means Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties for all phones and tablets running the Android mobile operating system, while both companies will participate in the marketing and development of Windows Phone 7.
It has built handheld devices for archrivals Dell and Hewlett-Packard, smart phones that run the Palm and Windows Mobile operating systems.
Google began rolling out its new mobile operating system, Android 2.2, to Nexus One phones on Thursday, and a beta version of fully-functional Flash is available for it.
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The South Korean company has rushed to remedy that with its own smart-phone platform, Bada, and by producing mobile phones that use Google's low-cost Android operating system.
Those pieces include not only more software features on its phones, but even a run at a new mobile operating system, Tizen, with Intel and a recently announced deal with online ad tech firm OpenX to create a mobile ad exchange.
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In addition to constantly improving operating systems and new handset features, customized games and social media apps for mobile phones allow users to access social media sites Twitter and Facebook from their phones.
In January of 2011, however, Microsoft announced last year that it is working with Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments to put a version of its Windows operating system on computers powered by the ARM-based processors now used in mobile phones and tables.
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In fact, antivirus firms in general have yet to prove that mobile devices even need extra security software, given the fractured operating systems on smart phones and the low rate of infection on the relatively new platforms.
The company is also making phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software and its own Bada operating system.
There are small groups operating around the world and they are in contact with one another all the time through mobile phones.
Microsoft scored a big coup in February, when it announced that Nokia, a longtime foe in mobile operating systems, would begin incorporating Microsoft's e-mail push technology into its phones.
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In developed markets like the U.S., TI says a range of phones would benefit from pico projectors. (The technology will run on any mobile operating system and is compatible with chipsets from companies other than TI.) Business-centric smartphones could include projectors for displaying PowerPoint projections or sales videos while high-end feature phones could incorporate them for social networking for teenagers.
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Analysts and industry watchers expect the company to announce details of its new Meego operating system at the event, an open-sourced mobile operating system on which it has been collaborating with Intel and hopes to use on high-end smart phones that compete with Apple's iPhone.
Nokia announced the new budget-friendly Windows Lumia 610 at the Mobile World Congress and played up several upgraded basic phones that run on the older S40 and Symbian operating systems, including the Asha 202 and 203, the Asha 302 equipped with keyboard, and the mid-range 808 PureView, which boasts a camera with 41-megapixel resolution.
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