LiMo focussed on providing Linux based operating platform for mobile providers
Posted on February 11, 2009, under Google Android, Open-Source.
The LiMo Foundation today announced that at least six major operators will be delivering Linux based mobile phones in 2009. LiMo is group focussed on providing a standard Linux based operating platform for mobile providers. In June of 2008 it absorbed its rival the LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) and in my view now competes squarely against Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian.
The new Linux phones will come from NTT DOCOMO, Orange, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone all of whom are LiMO contributors in some way. LiMO claims now to have 33 commercial mobile phones certified as being LiMo compliant.
LiMo - Linux for Mobile Foundation
Posted on October 6, 2008, under Open-Source.
LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending the community-based development benefits of “transparent, innovative and scalable” open source software. It will be guided by a board of directors comprising the Foundation Chairman Greg Besio of Motorola and vice- chairman Kiyohito Nagata of NTT DoCoMo.
To support their goal of creating world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based platform for cellphones, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone have launched LiMo (Linux for Mobile) Foundation.