NASA building satellites with Android phones inside
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NASA building satellites with Android phones inside
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Re: NASA building satellites with Android phones inside
#2This is a marketing stunt. Why not use Linux but Android?
Re: NASA building satellites with Android phones inside
#3This is a marketing stunt. Why not use Linux but Android?
Aside from the obvious comeback of "the Android kernel is Linux"...
The reason NASA wants to use commercial phones is because it wants to use off-the-shelf hardware. That provides it with an already-extant platform with mature drivers, which doesn't need much custom engineering.
I'm not aware of any mature, free-as-in-speech Linux phones with the sort of power and sensor arrays of the Galaxy Nexus. I guess NASA isn't either. Are you?