
Cornered! is a blog devoted, most of the time anyway, to telecommunications: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. Controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on my encounters and experiences in an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
Blog
Technology news and Jobs
Cornered!
Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge
Cornered!
Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge | Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge |
|
|
| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 15 May 2008 | |
|
Page 2 of 2 In less than a month since then, LiMo has forged ahead. Most significantly this week US mobile operator Verizon became the first US carrier to join LiMo. It will fill the final seat on LiMo's board of directors and Kyle Malady, vice president of network for Verizon was reported saying that he expects Verizon to sell both simple and 'smart' phones using LiMo next year, and that Linux Mobile "will rapidly become our preferred operating system."The addition of Mozilla caught the eye of Ovum analyst Adam Leach, who said: "Ovum believes that the decision by the Mozilla Foundation to join LiMo is of significant strategic importance to both foundations." He explained that, latest recruits notwithstanding "LiMo membership is still biased towards mobile not open source players." The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organisation that sponsors the Mozilla open source project that is responsible for the development of the Firefox Web browser, the second most used Web browser next to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. According to Leach: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative development model and the IPR safe harbour that it creates; allowing proprietary and open source software to co-exist within a single platform. Mozilla also brings an established and much respected developer community to the platform. "For Mozilla, joining LiMo represents an opportunity to establish a Mozilla-based mobile browser in the market by using LiMo as a distribution channel. The addressable market for full Web browsers on mobile is set to grow substantially over the next three years and this provides Mozilla with a chance to catch-up with Webkit-based browsers such as those used within Safari on the iPhone and by Nokia on S60 phones, Opera Mobile and ACCESS NetFront." Leach contrasted LiMo's progress with that of the Google backed Open Handset Alliance and its Android platform, saying: "Other than a couple of early prototype demos at this year's Mobile World Congress, [Android] has yet to show further convincing progress. LiMo in contrast had 18 LiMo handsets from seven vendors - including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung - on show at the Mobile World Congress, in February.
Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now
|
| < Next story in category | Previous story in the category > |
|---|



Tags






