By Raju Shanbhag

TMCnet Contributing Editor

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) has announced that the company’s OKL4 embedded hypervisor is employed on the Qualcomm (News - Alert) chipset inside the market’s first-ever commercial Android-powered handset. The Dream phone (G1) was introduced by T-Mobile in September and is manufactured by HTC Corporation. This is the first handset powered by the Android software platform developed by Google and theOpen Handset Alliance ( News - Alert).

Developers can now provide increasingly complex software for mobile devices—in less time and with less effort with the help of OK Labs’ OKL4 open source embedded hypervisor. They do not have to compromise the reliability and security of those devices to achieve this. OKL4 is strategically positioned as the optimal software architecture for next-generation mobile devices as it focuses on the specific requirements of mobile phones. It also uses proven high-performance microkernel technology, and builds on an open source code base which strengthens its position even more.