Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 01 April 2008 04:26
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The LiMo Foundation has released, on schedule, its Linux based platform for mobile devices, along with a set of freely available application programming interfaces, and has signed up Texas Instruments as a new core member.
The LiMo Platform, Release 1, is claimed to be is the world's first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. "With Release 1 of the LiMo Platform now completed, LiMo Foundation has established a scalable and sustainable mobile device platform that will spur rapid innovation and contributions from all LiMo members," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation.
"In slightly more than one year, we have rolled out our deliverables on schedule, our membership has continued to grow strongly with broad engagement from across the mobile communications industry, and leading handset providers have already released a range of devices using LiMo technology."
The Google-initiated Open Handset Alliance is also working on a mobile handset platform, dubbed Android. Interviewed by LinuxWorld, Gillies claimed that the LiMo Platform will provide much greater choice than Android to handset companies and to consumers; the user interface can be selected freely, as can the applications and the content. For example, will it really be possible for a user to choose Yahoo! as the preferred search provider on an Android handset? I'm not sure."
The Foundation claims that all of the enabling technology within Release 1 - created by the foundation's founder members - has "now been commercially deployed and proven within multiple handsets enjoyed by consumers today, as well as in several reference and pilot devices that will be on the market later this year."
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