Softbank Adopting Common Mobile OS Strategy
By Will Park on Sunday, May 27th, 2007 at 12:45 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Devices
Dow Jones is reporting that Softbank (OTCPK: SFTBF) has announced that they are going to adopt a common mobile operating system for their handsets. Following NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM)’s lead, the other Asian carrier will be using what it calls a “Portable Open Platform Initiative” for their future handset. The software development side of the mobile phone industry accounts for some of the heaviest research and development costs. So, by using a common mobile operating system across all of Softbank’s offerings will help speed up and ease development of new handsets and applications.
via: cellularnews
