The next generation software platform for mobile phones

Recently mobile phones provide not only voice service but internet access, multi-media message services, games, local communication controller and so on. Therefore, more productive software platforms are required. We develop the next generation software platform based on Linux. In the paper, we describe a summary of the software platform. First, back grounds are mentioned, including recent and future functionalities in mobile phones. Then, we summarize requirements for mobile phone Linux. Third, we describe functionalities of middleware for the mobile phones on top of Linux. Lastly future trends in mobile phone software are presented.