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The Windows Embedded 8 Handheld operating system is built on the Windows Phone 8 core ( Panasonic announced at this year's NRF its intentions to build a Windows Embedded 8 Handheld device, as well.) In January 2013, Bluebird officials said they wanted their unannounced Embedded 8 Handheld device "to be the first on the market." The other original four partners in the program were Honeywell, Ingenico, Intermec and Motorola Solutions. Microsoft officials have declined to comment on those reports.īluebird is one of a handful of OEMs which announced it was joining Microsoft's Windows Embedded 8 Handheld program
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I've heard the more likely discussions have been around creating single form-factor phones that could be provisioned to run either Android or the Windows Phone OSīy customers and/or carriers. Various reports have claimed that Microsoft has held discussions with hardware makers about the possibilities of putting Android and Windows Phone both on a single device. Here's another shot from Bluebird's brochure that emphasizes the choice of operating system on the device. Minus the different buttons along the bottom of the devices, the BM180 whether running Android or Windows Embedded 8 looks identical, as can be seen from the screen shot at the top of this post, which I grabbed from Bluebird's brochure.
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Thanks to a tip from "Sheeds," I was able to grab the full specs and details about the coming device before they seemingly disappeared from Bluebird's Web site, which has been largely unavailable today.Īccording to Bluebird's brochure, the BM180 the "world('s) first & biggest screen smart terminal." It can run either Android 4.2 or the preview version of Windows Embedded 8 Handheld in "one form factor." (There's also a new BP30 model mentioned in Bluebird's press release, which is an even more ruggedized version of the BM180.) The press release announcing the device interestingly doesn't mention Android at all it focuses on Windows Embedded 8 Handheld, which is based on the Windows Phone 8 core.
That OEM is Bluebird, a Korean handheld mobile device provider.īluebird announced the new five-inch device, which it is calling BM180, on January 17. It turns out that at least one OEM already has put Android and an embedded variant of the Windows Phone OS on a single form factor.
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It's on Android 1.5 at the moment, but the company anticipates a "2.x" upgrade (we're guessing this'll be 2.1) either this quarter or next, so start socking away cash - and dreaming up the most creative way to put that moisture resistance to the test while you're at it.There's been a lot of talk in the past couple of weeks about whether Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone OS could and should coexist on a single device and/or form factor.
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Needless to say, this isn't the kind of phone you buy for your pre-teen, your grandmother, or yourself for that matter - but if you've got a fleet of mobile dudes and gals that need to scan stuff, drop their phones without a care in the world, download Market apps on the go, and hate on their Trimble Nomad-toting competition, this could very well be your lucky day. Previously equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1, the beastly machine rolls on a Marvell PXA320 at 806MHz with GSM / HSDPA voice and data, a 3 megapixel cam, barcode scanner, 3.5-inch VGA display, full QWERTY keyboard, and - you guessed it - mil-spec 810F compliance for resistance to just about any reasonable thing you could throw at it. SDG's Bluebird Pidion line is nothing new - nor is its ultra-rugged BIP-6000 handheld computer - but what is new is Android compatibility.