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Limo readies its Linux handset software
Tim Green Feb 4 2008, 11:10am
The LiMo consortium's Linux software platform for handsets will be released in March.
The group also expects the platform’s various API specifications to be published at the same time. LiMo's initial founder members – Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone – collaborated on the release, using technology that has been commercially within many existing handsets.
Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, said: "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."
Linux was selected as the core technology for the LiMo Platform for its acceptability by the whole mobile industry, its rich functionality and scalability, its record of success in embedded systems and mobile phones and its potential to easily ‘cross-platformis’ with other product categories. Linux is, of course, the underlying technology in Google’s Android mobile platform.
