HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE to support the new JIL 1.2 specification.
Future handsets from all of these manufacturers will be capable of running apps that work with the The Joint Innovation Lab project.
As a result they will offer developers more addressable devices for widgets. Customers meanwhile get more apps that can be launched from the home screen of the device.
“The decision from HTC, Huawei Device, Lenovo and ZTE to include the JIL widget runtime in their future devices demonstrates the strength of JIL’s efforts to establish an open mobile development environment,” says JIL CEO, Peters Suh.
It's one of many announcements from JIL at MWC, and an indication that momentum is growing around an intriguing project.
JIL was established in 2008 with immediate support from LG, RIM, Samsung and Sharp. It's a series of specs that make it possible to publish JIL compliant widgets across the JIL member companies of China Mobile, SOFTBANK, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. That's a potential one billion people across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
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