NoTA "for mobile phones that can overwhelmingly reduce the development cost of mobile phones has appeared

Along with sophistication of functionality, it is a problem that the development cost of mobile phones continues to soar, but the development cost as a wholeAbout 80% is software development costIt is said that.

To reduce its development cost, NOKIA, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has developed an innovative mobile phone operating system "NoTA" that can reduce the development cost of software by up to 1 / 100th It became clear that I did.

For domestic OS "TRONThe University of Tokyo which developedKen SakamuraThe YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory, which the professor will serve as a director, is also participating.

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Nokia, mobile software development cost compression business - latest news: IT-PLUS

According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news report, NOKIA, the world's largest cell phone manufacturer, has jointly developed with the Finnish government and the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory to develop a new mobile phone "NoTA".

"NoTA" features that it is possible to saves labor on the development of software that was necessary for each function, because control of various functions such as communication, search, and image display installed in the mobile phone can be performed only by the OS, It will be able to compress the development cost of software up to 100 times.

NOKIA plans to use "NoTA" for the development of handsets for next year and to call for cell phone manufacturers including Japan to use it.

Mobile phone that adopted Google's free mobile phone OS "Android"It is clear that the development cost of "G1" is overwhelmingly cheapHowever, how much does development cost actually be suppressed by adopting "NoTA"?