Let’s start gingerly, with Nokia. You’ll recall the indignation when Nokia threw Symbian under the Windows Phone 7 bus and osborned its existing product line. Nokia dead-ended Symbian handsets, causing sales to plunge while everyone waited for the new MicroNokia smartphones.
The company didn’t stop there.
It then presented Meego, the offspring of Intel’s Moblin (as in Mobile Linux) and Nokia’s own Maemo (also Linux-based), as their weapon of the future. This was their killer smartphone OS.
But Nokia gave up on Meego. The result was a risky but greatly simplified product strategy: One OS, WP7, instead of three or four versions of Symbian, S40, S60, Symbian^3, and Meego.
Such simplicity couldn’t last.
We now hear that Nokia is developing an operating system called Meltemi, the name of a Greek wind (I’m not making this up). The new OS targets the low end and intends to replace the S40 engine for Nokia’s dumbphones, a.k.a. feature phones.
A few thoughts.
First, both Meego and WP7 were, and are, too heavy for entry-level phones.
Second, Nokia sees a future in low-cost, low-margin products. Today’s smartphone BOM is excessive, north of $100, and that’s before the handset maker, Nokia in our case, gets a slice of the pie.
Looking at Nokia’s Q2 numbers, we see an ASP (Average Selling Price) of 142€ ($200) per smartphone, and a low 36€ ($50) per “feature phone”. In the same quarter, Nokia sold 16.7M smartphones and an impressive 71.8M dumbphones, yielding revenues of $2.4B and $2.6B respectively. In other words, for all the excitement about its smartphone OS moves, Nokia is still a huge “feature phone” maker. To keep this business alive, it must make its dumbphone smarter without introducing expensive hardware. From the WSJ Meltemi story:
“… even consumers in emerging markets now expect low-end feature phones to act like smartphones’’
The S40 engine is old and patchy. Hack off the unnecessary limbs from a Linux ‘‘distro”, graft some hooks into a Ovi + Navteq + Microsoft Bing service, and we have our own entry-level phone OS.
We’ll see how these efforts pan out as low-cost Chinese handset makers attack Nokia’s business with customized – and unofficial — Android mutants such as Ophone and Tapas.
We now turn to Samsung and Intel. Evidently inspired by the success of the Meego collaboration with Nokia, the odd bedfellows produced Tizen, a new Mobile Linux joint venture, hosted by the Linux Foundation. Unlike Meego, Tizen is based on HTML5 and other Web standards. Quoting Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center in a recent blog post:
“… why not just evolve MeeGo? We believe the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our investment needs to shift toward HTML5. Shifting to HTML5 doesn’t just mean slapping a web runtime on an existing Linux, even one aimed at mobile, as MeeGo has been.”
Just as Meego was a serious effort from two marquee companies — or an admission that neither could muster the brains and cojones to do the job alone — the Tizen joint venture is a curious contraption. Is this Intel’s admission that they haven’t enough money and engineering talent to develop a mobile OS? Or is the silicon giant dancing on coals, having been burned by two aborted launches in a row: Moblin and Meego?
As for Samsung’s taste in mobile operating systems, we can safely call it eclectic. With Android, Bada, Windows Phone 7 and, now, Tizen, Samsung now has a full quiver of operating systems. Samsung is the new Nokia in more ways than one: Smartphone unit volume and, now, four operating systems.
We’re not quite done with Samsung.
We now learn that it has reached a “definitive agreement” with Microsoft: For each Android smartphone it makes, the Korean bruiser cries uncle and pays royalties to an even tougher frenemy. HTC and other makers had knuckled under before Samsung did, leading one to speculate that Microsoft is conducting a methodical, one-redoubt-at-a-time assault against Android. As Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel explains it: “We Haven’t Seen an Android Product That Doesn’t Infringe on Our Patents.” The Valley scuttlebutt had been that Microsoft was making more money from Android-related royalties than from its anemic Windows Phone 7 licenses. Now Goldman Sachs comes up with an estimate for Microsoft’s Android royalties revenue: $444M. A nice piece of change considering the “cost of goods sold”, mostly the company’s own legal eagles.
Naturally, Google cries foul — while buying patents left and right, Motorola’s included:
“This is the same tactic we’ve seen time and again from Microsoft,” the company said in a statement. “Failing to succeed in the smartphone market, they are resorting to legal measures to extort profit from others’ achievements and hinder the pace of innovation. We remain focused on building new technology and supporting Android partners.”
Not everyone buys the ‘‘supporting Android partners” pablum. See Florian Mueller’s Foss Patents blog:
“If Samsung truly believed that Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the Android ecosystem at large, it would have waited until that deal is closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft. But Samsung probably knows it can’t rely on Google. It decided to address Android’s intellectual property issues on its own.”
(The full post is well worth your time. Florian easily rises above the crowd of pageview netwalkers; if patents wars are your thing, you might also want to subscribe to his Google Reader RSS feed, or to follow @FOSSpatents on Twitter. And thanks to John Gruber for steering me away from a Korea Times article and back to the Foss Patents original.)
Here in the Valley, most of us think Google will have to face the music. Especially Oracle’s. Added to Microsoft’s game of IP Go, Oracle’s multibillion dollars lawsuit against Google’s alleged (and dangerously close to established) abuse of Java intellectual property could force the Mountain View Don’t Be Evil leaders to make painful concessions.
We’re not done with Android and Google.
We now move to this week’s pièce de résistance: Amazon’s new 7” tablet: the Kindle Fire. (The beautiful launch page is here. And the full 51 minute video of Jeff Bezos keynote is here.) I immediately ordered one, of course, with a November 17th delivery date. I’ll let a couple of weeks of use go by and report my second impressions, the ones that feed the all important Word of Mouth.
The hardware looks like a RIM PlayBook relative, perhaps because they use the same ODM, Quanta, and the light-emitting display technology is the same that Amazon mocked in ads touting its very nice reflective e-ink. As for the rumor that Amazon’s 7” tablet is merely a stopgap for the Holiday Season, meaning there’s a possibly larger/better Kindle Fire in the works, I don’t think it holds water. We know Amazon isn’t a short-term thinker — as we’ll see in a moment.
Let’s go back to the Kindle Fire’s launch page and perform a little experiment. Click on the link and, depending on your persuasion, press CTRL-F of Command-F and enter Android as a search term. In my case, I got two occurrences… Just two. One: “Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android.” And, wait, the second disappeared on me, I saw it minutes ago in a customer review, I swear…
We know the Fire is built on top of Android software, but Amazon makes no mention of it. As Michael Mace notes in his MobileOpportunity blogpost, neither does Google:
“Google’s reaction to Kindle Fire speaks volumes about its goals for Android. Kindle Fire is based on Android, and will run Android applications. Android has been struggling in the tablet space, so you’d expect that Google would be delighted to have Amazon on the Android bandwagon. But you’d be wrong. Let’s look at the press release Google issued today to welcome Amazon to the Android family. Wait a minute, there is no press release. Okay, so let’s look on the Google blog. Nothing at all. Maybe a tweet from Andy Rubin? Dead silence. […] You’re not the licensee Droid is looking for.”
Quoting from the Wikipedia Android article:
“Even though the software is open source, device manufacturers cannot use Google’s Android trademark unless Google certifies that the device complies with their Compatibility Definition Document (CDD). Devices must also meet this definition to be eligible to license Google’s closed-source applications, including the Android Market.”
This explains why Amazon started its own Android Appstore a few months back. Still quoting Michael Mace:
“The problem is that Amazon is using Android as just an OS, not using the Google-branded services and application store that Google layers on top of the OS (link). Although Google touted the openness of Android when it was first launched, the reality is that Google is using it as a Trojan horse to force its services onto hardware. What Amazon did with Android is very threatening to Google, and so you’re not likely to hear a lot of supportive words from them.”
Amazon uses the Android source code, but, unlike handset makers, it doesn’t get used by Google. (You might also want to read the aptly titled How Amazon picked Android’s lock.)
And we have Amazon’s Silk browser. An interesting and controversial development. In a nutshell, when you send a browsing request from your Fire, it’s processed by Amazon’s Web Services cloud.
Why?
The official explanation is that Silk delivers a faster, nicer browsing experience. AWS will cache frequently requested pages for a faster response. Also, AWS can process the page and re-format it for your Fire, removing unnecessary content, making sure aspect ratios are correct, and so on. All very nice, if not entirely new: The pre-processing Opera Mini performs the same gratuities for mobile devices. (More in Matthew Baxter-Reynold’s analysis published by The Guardian.)
Amazon’s browser apparently does more than caching, speeding, and munging Web pages. For example, what happens to Google ads and services? Today, on my PC, Google knows it’s me using its services. Tomorrow, from a Fire, I assume they’ll get an AWS request without further user info. That’s the ‘‘threatening to Google” part mentioned above, Google could find itself providing free services without getting much of anything in return.
Conversely, Silk could give Amazon an immense amount of personal data to be mined for its own business purposes, that is selling physical and logical objects, “stuff” and content.
This is controversial and very much in the air. On his blog, Chris Espinosa (the #8 Apple employee and still working there) raises the prospect of Amazon out-Googling Google and out-Facebooking Facebook:
“Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they’re being offered there. What’s more, Amazon is getting this not by expensive, proactive scraping the Web, like Google has to do; they’re getting it passively by offering a simple caching service, and letting Fire users do the hard work of crawling the Web. In essence the Fire user base is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, scraping the Web for free and providing Amazon with the most valuable cache of user behavior in existence.”
Impressive. But is it true? Entirely true, partly true, or totally incorrect? As reported on GigaOM, Amazon went on the record denying such use of our personal data:
“Is Amazon able to peer into its customer usage behavior and use that to offer services based on that data. For instance if you see thousands of your customers going to buy SeeVees shoes from say a store like James Perse at a certain price, can you guys use that data to specifically tailor the Amazon store and offer up deals on those very same pair of shoes?” – the answer is no, as you can see in our terms and conditions, URLs are used to troubleshoot and diagnose Amazon Silk technical issues. Moreover, you can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or “off-cloud” mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As a reminder, usage data is collected anonymously and stored in aggregate, and no personal identifiable information is stored. It’s also possible to completely turn off the split-browsing mode and use Amazon Silk like a conventional Web browser.”
Great. I went to Amazon’s site and dug up Silk’s Terms & Conditions, as well as the Amazon Privacy Notice that if refers to — but fails to link to. The result isn’t as transparent as Amazon would like us to think. True, you can go “off-cloud” – you can browse without AWS caching and rendering help and, in theory, increase your privacy. But if you read the legalese about cookies, or ponder the meaning of the “generally” adverb above, you’re left wondering. When Amazon states “URLs are used to troubleshoot and diagnose Amazon Silk technical issues”, they could be disingenuous; they didn’t write “solely” or “strictly for the purpose…” The Silk T&C’s and Privacy Notice don’t say anything like that, they mention sharing information with third parties, storing information for 30 days and the like. And let’s not forget these terms can change without notice, as they do everywhere.
All this leads observers to wonder: What is Amazon up to exactly?
In the meantime, seeing the Google thread this week’s events, I wonder: Is Google’s Strategy Of Everything backfiring now? Do Larry, Sergey and Andy know how counter these 360 degrees assaults?
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I, too, have wondered if Anazon would get into search. I would welcome a new overlord.
When you are OPEN, you’re a leaf at the mercy of the wind. When you exercise CONTROL, you can *be* the wind.
Google could make its own tablet and offer publishers the deal Amazon is so expensive about…?
You hurried to order a Fire? You could have had pretty much all that with a Nook Color a year ago.
@ PJBLuvr: You’re right, I could have bought a Nook. But it’s Amazon I’m interested in. I think, but I need to verify, they’re pulling interesting software tricks with Fire/Silk. I’ll report early December.
@ Savorique: Yes, we’ll have to see Google’s respponse to the very clever Amazon maneuver. Amazon has lots of content, Google will have to get there. As we know, GOOG’s not particularly loved by content owners…
@ Mark Hernandez: I think we’re reaching the end of Google’s free ride on “Open”.
@ Rick Roberts: Amazon has A9 http://a9.com/
We’ll see where eles they go, as @counternotions supposes.
With that cache the consultation of the main web sites will be easier but that will not address the terrible recent lag that plague the rest of the internet. The heavy weight like Blizzard have found a way to address it but the life of the peons of the net is becoming unendurable.
It’s also bad that only people in the USA can enjoy the discount of the main Amazon, where its foreign subsidaries are lock down by a policy of unique price.
Well, at least Google had a model to follow when Amazon announced they were using Android non-®.
Somebody in PR probably dug up old news accounts of Sun’s remarkable silence when Google announced it was using java without any of the niceties that Sun and Google had been negotiating — you know, actual openness of java, licenses for the parts of java that Sun patented. Reportedly, Gosling had touted the pending cooperation before Google decided to go ahead without an agreement.
If Fire is as successful as the early buzz suggests, developers will code FIRST for it and later/never for other Android tablets. (Amazon’s Android version pre-dates the versions with tablet-oriented features, and I presume Amazon will develop proprietary within-app-purchase and other features that will increasingly distance the two versions.)
This puts a lot of pressure on Google to enhance the tablet features to give competitive support to Samsung, Acer, Asus, Moto et. al., so that IceCreamSandwich ends up in the Android Open Source Project pretty soon, giving Amazon yet another freebie boost.
So I imagine that some Corporate Strategy type is busy writing up a scenario where Android becomes a fully-proprietary product of Google; no subsequent AOSP releases would take place that could be used by Amazon, Chinese competitors, etc. Google would, under this fancy, explain how the patent wars had been used asymmetrically against it, and how much they regret having to restrict Android to its trusted business partners so that it could be ever more freely available, and blah blah blah.
Great post with lots of “angles”… Good read and deep insight..
Thanks for sharing.
You know you’re getting some seriously objective analysis when the consequence of millions of new Android tablets is bad for Google and apparently no problem for Apple.
A developer deciding whether to develop for iOS or Android will probably not look at the Fire announcement and decide iOS is the prudent move. Anyway, thank goodness for Foss world, where every Apple legal maneuver is big win for Apple.
I banned all Opera from the domains I control because of Opera Mini and I banned all Kindle on the Kindle launch day and I’ll ban every man-in-the-middle browser maker going forward. The Web is client-server, not client-server-server and especially not client-corporation-server.
Kindle Fire is an iPod class device. iPods have been on the Web as full HTML5 citizens for 4 years. Apple gave their browser core to Amazon for free in order to enable their users to also be full citizens, not an incompatibility nightmare that costs us all, like IE6. There is no excuse for Silk.
Regarding Google: In 2005, who would have ever thought they would be owned by Motorola? Google CEO Andy Rubin has been making some strange decisions for a while now. I’m reminded of the blogger who speculated that ex-Apple people (like Rubin) were deliberately bringing Apple competitors down from the inside. Exposing Google to massive liability from Apple by cloning the iOS interface was an obvious tactic, but pitting creaky Java feature phone apps against desktop class Cocoa on iPhone while exposing Google to massive liability from Larry Ellison, Apple Chairman Steve Jobs’ best friend? Magic. It’s like he tapped into Google’s money pipe and ran lines down to Apple and Oracle. Then, for the coup de gras, he had Google build Windows Mobile 7 to save Microsoft’s phone business and prepare the way for Windows 8 phones. As a bonus, Microsoft can now copy Google Search with impunity because Google has become even less original than The Photocopier King. A fine ballet of destruction.
And special mention to Chrome OS. Releasing an operating system for low-end PC’s that has the entirely opposite philosophy to the best-selling low-end PC for over a year now (iPad) was another excellent way to degrade the Google brand and financials while making Apple look even more brilliant and impossible to compete with.
Anyone who thinks Android is really open has not been paying attention.
@ Edwin: Not sure I correctly discern your point. Are you being sarcastic, or am I being thick?
In any event, I don’t know if the Fire is an “Android tablet” or an Amazon tablet. Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android isn’t open-sourced yet, so we don’t know if Amazon will have access to Honeycomb releases. See Walt French’s comment above regarding the possibility of Honeycomb becoming proprietary.
What we know today is we don’t know exactly which “Android” apps will run on the Fire, given its Android version.
I don’t have an opinion on the Fire’s impact on Apple, I’ll try and form one once I get mine.
@ Hamranhansenhansen: Ah, the man-in-the-middle browser. Imagine the phone company being able to listen in and accumulate data on conversations between clients and their brokers. They could make money with such data
I call this week “interesting” because I expect it to trigger a number of fun developments
Lots of people are against Google in the industry and in the media covering the industry. Don’t listen to them. They are always wrong.
Gingerbread does not have CDD, Amazon can use all the Google apps if they want, they probably will once they upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich which may happen even before the Fire is actually released. No need to close down a tablet to satisfy the customer. Amazon will make most money making the tablet as open as possible.
HTC and Samsung only allow Microsoft to do FUD PR stunt on “Android licencing” only because they want to try out that Windows 8 and Windows Phone stuff, which Microsoft pays for all software/hardware development, all marketing and even you get to see Microsoft financing the Windows hardware manufacturing. For example, the 5000 Windows 8 dev tablets given at the Build conference were paid for by Microsoft. Microsoft is not getting $444 million for Android licences, that is a number that is totally made up. Samsung and HTC will stop paying “licences” as soon as Windows 8 and Windows Phone are proven to be complete failures, but Microsoft will probably keep those alive for years yet, even having less than 3% market share.
Nokia needs to use Android on $50 to $200 smart phones, otherwise they are finished. It costs them nothing to do that.
Oracle is desperate because they over-paid for Sun and they have no guarantee that Google will agree to sponsor a part of that acquisition in exchange for never even mentioning to require licencing of any of Java.
Goobris: when a company’s invincible position in one space creates the illusion that it can get away with anything it likes in other spaces. (Google of course; Microsoft and its abominable ‘Windows Mobile’; Facebook, soon)
@JLG, My point is that the Amazon Fire will run Android apps, the api has not been forked. This is good for Android developers.. and for Google. Amazon is not using Google services, sure this is not great news for Google but obviously something they anticipated would be necessary or they would have never decoupled Android OS and Google services in the first place. Re: my Apple snark, perhaps I should not put you in this camp but there seems to be an effort by the Apple devoted to suggest that the Fire will have no impact on iPad. I agree it may not have a huge impact if Apple can continue to successfully make the case that the iPad is your next PC. But if the iPad is primarily seen as your media consumption device, they are in for some hurt unless they compete directly with a cheaper, lighter iPad.
Consumers +1 for a cheap usable tablet
Privacy -10 for letting Amazon watch your life
Businesses -10 for letting Amazon be the “free” one-way tollbooth
Competitors -1 for letting Amazon taking market while sitting still on the rumors
Google -1 for letting open Android be your competitor
Content Publishers +1 have a credible sales channel and a consumption device via a songle provider in Amazon
A whole lot of negatives! Does choice for consumers outweigh the negatives?
@ Edwin: Regarding Fire running Android apps. Which ones will run, and which ones won’t? Apparently, Amazon uses a non-tablet (non Honeycomb) Android release. How will Android smartphone apps run on Amazon’s tablet? Screen real estate, aspect ratio? You write “the api hasn’t been forked”. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but which version of the API?
Regarding the iPad and iOS more generally, let’s wait and see what happens next. You’re right, if the iPad is only a media consumption device as Gartner used to call it (and no longer does), the Fire could be a direct competitor. In any event, isn’t it time the Cupertino folks get some real competition, as opposed to “The Amateur Hour Is Over” braggarts from Waterloo. I personally think the Fire and, more generally, the Kindle product line, will be very successful. Bezos, by “picking the Android lock”, will sell millions of tablets without becoming a Google vassal.
@JLG: Bezos is sane and therefore wii maintain sufficient Andoid app compatibility. The myth that Apple hasn’t had any tablet competition is a sad replay of what happened to iPhone. Apple has gone from 100% of the tablet market to less than 2/3 with “no competition”. Android has gone from nothing to double the iPhone’s market share while Apple “won the smartphone wars”. Part of the Android mission was to stymie IOS in addition to spreading Google’s services. I assume Apple is readying a legal barrage for Amazon as we type.
Will Microsoft soon go after Amazon for Android royalty payments on each Kindle Fire shipped?
What about Oracle? Presumably they’ll want to get paid for each copy of Kindle Fire Android or have an injunction, won’t they?
Have Amazon thought this one through any further than Google has (not)?
Google hides behind search, Amazon hides behind books and shopping, Apple hides behind music, MS hides behind windows and office.
None of this means much. What you have is tech behemoths trying to leverage content behind hardware/content lockin.
We will see alot of former partners try to destroy each other with patent trolling, and preliminary injuctions and claims of uniqueness.
The next layer of incompatibility is upon us, the hardware/cloud lockin. It will be really sad too. Noone will be complaining about MS file formats anymore, because the data simply will be inaccessible in any consumable format.
Cloud services are the new mainframe, the new stripping of data ownership, and we are the new paupers of the sociomaniacal class.
Woe to us the users, as we will have no platform to merge any of this, to enjoy all the benefits as our desktops become useless and we are forced to buy content linked devices to consume anything, and pay for each usage.
Yes the future is bleak…very bleak.
So is this the end of road for open source Android? Looks like Google has to close it to keep it’s competitors at bay. If it happens, Google may loose its brand value and trust of it’s partners.
Android has had no effect on Apple iOS so far. Apple is constrained by supply, not by sales. So even with 0% Android sales Apple could not sell more.
Sometime in the future Android and iOS will compete for sure. But it has not happened yet.
Amazon should simply buy Yahoo. Seems like a perfect fit.
@Hamranhansenhansen
Andy Rubin is Google’s CEO? Google is owned by Motorola? You are definitely living on a different planet than the rest of us.
@Darwin
The fact that the Fire is based on Android and Google had nothing to do with it is the ultimate proof that Android is free.
@Steve: absolutely. Android* is free**.
* (R) Lucasfilm, c/o Google
** At point of implementation. Does not account for settlements with Microsoft, Oracle, etc etc and any other future, unquantifiable liabilities; licensing of core Google apps and so on. See terms and conditions for details.
Do you think Google will count Kindle Fire activations, or do they only count CDDs? And has anyone asked them if they count the forks, Tapas or oPhone?
@KenC To best iOS, Google will include the Fire activations, but each time Google execs state the number, they will then make a polite *cough*. (Think: an aural asterisk)
Will Microsoft try and suck money out of Amazon for patent violation? This is important because Amazon is already not making money on kindles. High licensing fees might make the whole house of cards come tumbling down.
If Google were to release a subsidized, $200 Motorola-made Xoom tablet, we’d forget all about Android.
I pre-ordered a Fire too. Can’t wait to hack it.
jim
@JLG Don’t you think that Florian Mueller’s Foss Patents blog is overly pro-Apple/anti Android? He does succinctly put patent law cases together but always draws conclusions that show Google in a negative light. Take the Motorola/Verizon mention in the Oracle court documents which are not dated. I’m convinced these are at least a couple of years old but as far as I can tell no one knows the truth. Yet everyone reports Mr Mueller’s opinion as fact. He might be right, but he might be wrong too.
Man, some of you guys are crazy.
Is Android hurting right now?
Not at all. The phones have twice the marketshare as Apple. The tablets are just getting started.
Is Google going to stop open-sourcing everything?
Um, Android is just one open source product they support. OF MANY. Chrome browser is open source, yet Google still supports open source Firefox as well. Chrome OS is open source. They hired the founder of Python, an open source programming language. They also hired the author of the HTML5 standard. Everything about Google is open. Comments that suggest otherwise are just ignorant. Everyone who chooses to release any code under an open source license knows exactly what they’re getting into. They’ve thought about it. You haven’t. Big surprise.
Does this hurt Google?
This hurts Apple, who was running away with the market. And in the tablet market, anything that hurts Apple is good for Google. Google still–clearly–has a search business supported by advertising. That is their core business. They’ve extended it with additional services. Wake me up when we see Amazon Maps. Because currently, Google’s services still offer plenty of value. You know they make apps for iOS too, right?
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[...] (full colour display, multimedia capabilities and the clever, cloud-accelerated Silk browser – see Jean-Louis’ column). In addition, Amazon redesigned its E-ink-based Kindle with two models, including a small 6-inch [...]
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[...] JLG: We now hear that Nokia is developing an operating system called Meltemi, the name of a Greek wind (I’m not making this up). The new OS targets the low end and intends to replace the S40 engine for Nokia’s dumbphones, a.k.a. feature phones. [...]