Android 64-bit support available, awaiting Samsung Galaxy S5 release - Northern Voices Online

As an operating system, this is one of the best and competes well with iOS. Android 64-bit support is already available. Samsung Galaxy S5 release will bring it before the whole world. Android already bakes in 64-bit support at its base, says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. Android doesn't want to undergo any "special development process" to bring in 64-bit processing capacity that Apple introduced eventfully in its new iPhone 5S. Based on Linux, Android obviously extends support to 64-bit processors, developers just need to add hardware backup, says Mr. Zemlin. It is indeed exciting news for Android fans that have been disappointed to hear that Apple brought the first 64-bit support for the first time. But, it comes as a shock that Android already supports 64-bit as long as it is based on Linux, which already has the ability to work with 64-bit chips for a long time. What all tech makers now need is to develop 64-bit chips for their products, and of course, it will work well on Android. "That's done in Linux, has been done for a long time. The Android ecosystem just picks that up by default, they don't have to go through any special development process to do that," says Jim Zemlin. Samsung has already announced its plan to integrate 64-bit processors in its next line of smartphones, possibly the next year Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 3 in reply to Apple iPhone 5S. All other major tech makers including Sony, HTC and LG might be following Samsung in this regard. By the way, there is a criticism that Apple's new iPhone 5S won't provide the full power and vigor of its 64-bit processor, the A7. To juice a 64-bit processor completely, the system should need 4GB of RAM, and there is no chance for the new iPhone 5S to mount such a system memory. Apple is yet to reveal the RAM capacity of iPhone 5S. Shortlink: Posted by admin on September 18, 2013. Filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFtbBkn28hNwY5dFweI0sKllEelXA&url=http://nvonews.com/2013/09/18/android-64-bit-support-available-awaiting-samsung-galaxy-s5-release/

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