NTT DoCoMo and Sharp to jointly develop application platforms for mobile phones

NTT DoCoMo and Sharp and other mobile phone manufacturers and Renesas Electronics Corp. announced that they have agreed to jointly develop an application platform for mobile phones.

This enables to shorten the development period of mobile phones and reduce costs, and by combining know-how of mobile phone development owned by each company, it is possible to further improve multimedia such as enhancement of video processing functions and expansion of 3D graphic processing functions In addition to realizing the function enhancement, it is said that the developed platform is planned to be offered to the mobile phone market all over the world, and Google will consider considering correspondence to OS "Android" for mobile phones about.

Details are as below.
Press announcement materials: DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Sharp agree to jointly develop application platform for mobile phones | Notice | NTT DoCoMo

According to this release, NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Sharp, Inc. will launch a new application platform compatible with Linux OS and Symbian OS to mobile phones scheduled to be released in late 2011 It seems that we will jointly develop with the goal of loading.

The application platform is the basic system of mobile phones including software that runs on "application LSI" which processes moving images and music. It covers every part of mobile phones, and the range of development is diverse.


When an application platform for joint development is developed, the four mobile phone manufacturers do not need to independently develop basic functions in the application processing of mobile phones, it is possible to shorten the development period and reduce the development cost, so that unique functions We can focus on the development of.

By combining the expertise of mobile phone development of the six companies, we aim to further enhance multimedia functions by improving the video processing function by speeding up the application processing capacity and by expanding the 3D graphics processing function, It is said that it will consider delivering to the mobile phone market and responding to open OS such as Android.