Android remains, by far, the most
smartphone open platform and the only major one that permits so - called side loading of apps outside of its official app store.
Not exact matches
It has developed an aftermarket device you plug into your dashboard that gives you all the diagnostic information a mechanic would get when fixing your car, plus an
open platform served by some 150 third - party apps for your
smartphone that will do everything from automatically logging your mileage to telling you how fast your teenager may be driving.
In keeping with the principles of
Open Government, our updated Web presence strategically uses a variety of crowdsourcing tools,
smartphone applications, Facebook, Twitter, and other Web 2.0
platforms through multimedia pages.
Using a flexible
platform called the
Open Mobility Cloud as a basis, BMW Connected seamlessly integrates the vehicle into the user's digital life via multiple touchpoints, such as an iPhone, Apple Watch, and Android
smartphone.
BMW Connected is a personal mobility assistant that interfaces the vehicle with the customer's selected touchpoints, such as a
smartphone or smartwatch, via the flexible
Open Mobility Cloud
platform.
Milanesi argues that most
smartphone owners will want to adopt a tablet that fits their
smartphone platform — which really only leaves the door
open for the iPad, Android tablets, and RIM tablets to find success.
The OS is fully POSIX compliant enabling easy portability of C - based code, supports
Open GL for 2D and 3D graphics intensive applications like gaming, and will run applications built in Adobe Mobile AIR as well as the new BlackBerry ® WebWorksTM app
platform announced today (which will allow apps to be written to run on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets as well as BlackBerry
smartphones with BlackBerry ® 6).
«The online auction and sales
platform provider recently
opened pop - up stores in London and Berlin, where customers were able to make purchases using
smartphones and also obtain advice and training on how to sell on eBay.»
Topping tech headlines on Tuesday, Motorola unveiled Project Ara, an
open hardware
platform for creating highly modular
smartphones.
FBReader is an
open - source ebook reading program available for multiple
platforms including PCs, some
smartphones, Android, Linux, and others.
As the recent introduction of Apple's iPad demonstrates, applications now on
smartphones benefit from larger screens, and industry leaders are recognizing the importance of supporting multiple
platforms by supporting multiple clients and
open standards,» Mr. Rubin added.
Many brokers allow you to access their trading
platform from your
smartphone to
open and close trades and receive alerts through SMS.
Vivametrica is an
open source data analytics
platform that pulls data from
smartphones and wearable fitness devices — with user consent — to get a picture of health trends.
Built on the Ethereum blockchain, this
open - source
platform allows
smartphone users to browse, chat and make payments securely on the decentralized web.
With its first
smartphone title, Miitomo, it has
opened the door to many possibilities for future games on the mobile
platform.
Google - owned Motorola is aiming to do for hardware what Android did for software, by creating an
open platform for a modular
smartphone where you add and remove options and specifications to suit your own needs.
Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) has joined the
Open Automotive Alliance to make the Android
smartphone platform available to drivers through its new ground - breaking user interface.
Playground CEO Andy Rubin, whose new company Essential unveiled a new premium Android
smartphone and Amazon Echo competitor today, says his company's Ambient OS smart home
platform will be
open source.
If you're
open to try out other
platforms, the Lumia 520 is a better build handset that offers much polished
smartphone experience.
The alliance features an
open development model and common
platform which is designed to bring a similar Android experience, which is at present available on
smartphones and tablets, to the connected cars.
Confusion around MeeGo continues, with the news that the
open - source
platform is to transition into Tizen, a new, similarly
open - source OS targeting
smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and ICE systems.
As expected, the
platform will be
open source, allowing automakers to customize the interface and features the way they want to, much like
smartphone OEMs have their own custom UIs on top of vanilla Android.
If Motorola succeeds in Project Ara, an
open hardware
platform for modular phones, then it could radically and adversely impact all other
smartphone manufacturers, including Samsung.
The Android
Open Source Project revealed that the new Pixel
smartphones could run Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835
platform inside.
And if LG has its way, there will be even more friends down the road — the company is
opening up its
platform to encourage developers to make more add - ons for its
smartphone.