A mobile phone and telecom software testing and development services company with offices in Finland and China is seeking partners to help it create a versatile mobile phone reference design based on MontaVista Linux CEE (consumer electronics edition), Trolltech's Qtopia interface software, and Texas Instruments's (TI's) OMAP2420 SoC (system-on-chip).

Flander says it has extensive experience developing and testing wireless solutions, and hopes to create a full reference architecture that can be tailored by mobile phone designers and vendors for a variety of applications.

So far, the Flander design is based on TI's OMAP2420, a second-generation mobile phone SoC that powers the newest 902i-series Linux smartphones from NEC and Panasonic. The OMAP2420 integrates a graphics coprocessor from Imagination Technologies, which earlier this week published FutureMark 3D benchmark results for the chip.

On the software side, the Flander design uses MontaVista's Linux 2.4-based CEE 3.1 (Consumer Electronics Edition), a more general-purpose alternative to MontaVista's Linux 2.6-based Mobilinux phone stack. The design also uses an unspecified version of Trolltech's Qtopia user interface software stack. And, it includes Java and multimedia features, along with other third-party software components to be determined, Flander says.

CEO Mika Heikinheimo stated, “Linux is becoming an increasingly important operating system in mobile devices. We have invested in mobile Linux know-how, and our Linux testing is now approaching the level of [our] widely-recognized Symbian know-how.”

CTO Tomi Kankaanpaa stated, “Linux offers unique flexibility and cost efficiency in mobile phone development. Our testing unit with its advanced testing-automation solutions quarantees high quality.”

Flander is based in Helsinki, and opened a Beijing software testing facility late last year. It employs 180 software engineers and testers, and ranked third on Deloitte's “Fast 50” list of quickly growing Finnish companies for 2005. It claimed revenues of 8.8M Euros in 2004, and 142 percent year-over-year growth, following 55 percent growth to 3.3M Euros in 2003.

 
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