Wind River announces Android support for Qualcomm chipset

Wind River, the embedded software specialist, has announced an Android support package for Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile phone chipset. Qualcomm and Wind River presented the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) a week ago.

The combination of Wind River and Qualcomm technology will enable manufacturers to speed the development of Android devices with Wide VGA displays (between 800 to 845 by 480 resolution). The software will soon be available for download from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) website. The OHA is a Google initiated association for developments around the smartphone platform.

See also:

• Wind River announces Android development kit
• Wind River and Intel cooperating on Open Source for the automobile sector

(trk)