Originally Posted by IvanIV:
“It certainly would be ironic if they did better than Nokia. But I am skeptical if they do well at all. It's a small operation atm, they produced 400 handsets and look for an investor. They created something that is mostly compatible with Android to benefit from the work put into it. But will they have enough resources to bring updates? What's the USP of this new OS? That it is like Android?”
450 handsets for early investors. Its a variant on a kickstarter campaign. They've got a few thousand pre-orders and one operator is offering the phones on contract over in Finland.
The USPs of this OS? True multi tasking (not seen on Android), a genuinely interesting interface (Android is pretty dull in reality), the other half would allow you to add a physical keyboard (cannot be done on any other phone).
Oh, and its effectively a full *nix OS under the hood with no JVM/Dalvik layer for native applications - which as a result will run considerably faster.
I do wonder if the Myriad Alien Dalvik still claims performance benefits. When it was first announced, Myriad claimed it ran Android applications faster than Android itself.