OK Labs debuts system for mass market smartphones

One Core includes the newest generation OK Labs mobile virtualisation, OKL4 Microvisor 4.0. According to the embedded virtualisation software provider, this enables OEMs to 'significantly reduce' bill of material costs. By consolidating application, multimedia, and baseband radio processing onto a single cpu, OK Labs claims it can bring a high performance smartphone user experience to consumers at a feature phone price. The OKL4 Microvisor 4.0 has been designed as a new framework for developing and optimising device drivers and abstracting hardware variations among Android-based handsets and other wireless devices. It also incorporates security to support mobile payments, and is designed to provide secure connectivity between mobile workers and business-critical enterprise assets in the data center and the Cloud. It supports low cost, single core and advanced multicore mobile processors. Steve Subar, president and ceo, OK Labs, said: "OEMs and MNOs look to Android as a low cost, interoperable, and increasingly ubiquitous open mobile applications platform. Android 'One Core' combines our industry leading OKL4 Microvisor and enhanced Android, enabling the mobile/wireless ecosystem to unlock the full potential of Android, offering performance, interoperability, and security in mass-market smartphones."