LiMo puts wheels on mobile Linux platform
04 February 2008
LiMo puts wheels on mobile Linux platform
Open mobile Linux movement, the LiMo Foundation, said Monday that it will have the first release of its mobile platform ready to go in March.
The Foundation will have its wares on display at the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona next week, where Linux-based mobile operating systems are expecting to be holding court.
The LiMo group, though formed months earlier, shares many of the same aims as the Android-backing Open Handset Alliance. But given that both groups share a number of key members, the news is hardly surprising.
A handful of telecom powerhouses banded together a year ago to form the mobile Linux collective. Motorola, NTT DoCoMo and Samsung were among the founding members. But all three are also founders of the Open Handset Alliance.
A not for profit organisation, the LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending the community-based development benefits of Linux with development practices from the mobile community in a bid to minimise fragmentation - an ambition shared by the OHA and the LiPS Forum among other Linux collectives.
"The LiMo Platform is being readied by mobile leaders working in unison to deliver an open handset platform for use by the whole industry," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. "The first release of the LiMo Platform combines technologies already extensively market proven within an array of leading handsets. This will enable initial LiMo handsets to register in the marketplace far more rapidly than handsets based on unproven technology. In addition, we are now making the platform APIs freely available to the public in order to begin the widespread engagement of developer talent and innovation that will shape the new mobile consumer experiences of tomorrow."
Guido Arnone, director of terminals technology at Vodafone, and vice chairperson of the LiMo Foundation, said: "With LiMo announcing the first release of the platform that is common across many handset vendors and models, the stage is set for mobile innovation on Linux."
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