The new company will “open mobile platform” argues that in the coming months may already be available the first devices with this system.
In the scientific city of Innopolis, located in the republic of Tatarstan, has created the Russian Development Center mobile Operating Systems. This was explained in his Twitter account the Russian Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov.
company “open mobile platform” is dedicated to the creation of the operating system. It was just founded in April this year and they themselves declare that your main task will compete with Android in the mobile market.
The new operating system is designed for normal users and smartphones based on it will have an affordable price, told Vedomosti the company owner, Gregori Berezkin.
in his words the first models appear in Russia in the coming months. Berezkin said the company is negotiating with manufacturers but can not give details right now.
affordable smartphone operating system
the YotaPhone, the first Russian massively smatrphone not sold because of its high price, create Roselectronika CEO, Igor Kozlov. The company plans to sell a new phone and a tablet. Your retail will not exceed $ 200. Although the Russian operating system and the processor are at the moment not enough to get a competitive price.
“I do not see any problem in the smartphone assembled in China is released,” he told RBTH Karen Kazarian, analyst of the Russian Association of Electronic Communication. “I do not think short term in Russia the necessary basis appears. the main problem is that we have specialists to design the machinery”.
According Kazarian the new operating system left over will be built based on existing ones. “it is possible that developers pay attention to encryption systems that exist in Russia, and guide the operating system to increase the security level” he says.
Berezkin told Vedomosti that the new system will be developed based on the Sailfish platform, which, in turn, is based on Linux. developers Innopolis work for Sailfish adapt to the needs of Russian users. For example, they are working in the interface translation into Russian. Reportedly, Berezkin are not provided significant improvements in security issues.
A new system for BRICS
Sailfish was developed by La Jolla startup, created by Finnish developers who were at Nokia.
currently the company is registered in Hong Kong. “There are many Russians and Chinese investors. It is an international project with the active participation of Russia, and in any case, with Russian programmers” Nikiforov they said.
Since the founding of the company have launched small runs Sailfish based devices. The smartphone Jolla and Tablet Jolla Tablet.
However, financial issues were not favorable Jolla and in November the startup was forced to downsize and start restructuring.
although in May this year the company obtained financing for 12 million dollars and the company did not give details, but a year ago the company was owned by Berezkin.
not about the first attempt to create an alternative to Android in Russia. In early 2016, Nikiforov spoke of the need to join forces between the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries to develop a separate operating system.
“The BRICS have with half of the world’s population. As a result, potentially account for half of the users of smartphones and tablets, “said Nikiforov. In his opinion, the new operating system could be the answer to the dominant systems like Microsoft Windows, Google Android and Apple iOS.
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