The Limo Foundation is full of new members
By admin at 15 May, 2008, 7:06 pm
The LiMo Foundation continues to garner new members around its Linux platform Mobile formalized end of March.
Projections for the rise of Linux Mobile smartphones are repeated year after year, but 2007 saw the emergence of strong industrial groups dedicated to its development. Among them were the LiMo Foundation, created in early 2007 and has worked to develop a Linux platform Mobile common unveiled in March 2008.
Soon, the group of six founding members was reinforced by external contributions from all sectors of telecommunications, smelters to mobile operators via the terminal manufacturers.
Establishment of a solid industrial mesh
And if we talk about Google Android, the platform of the Mobile Linux LiMo Foundation also has assets to enforce through its many members, reinforced by new arrivals size Infineon Technologies, Kvalebarg AS, Mozilla Corporation Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobile, SFR, SK Telecom, but also Verizon Wireless, the second mobile operator in the USA.
A forty companies now participates actively in the development of the platform LiMo, including a version 2 is already planned. Its strength lies in its model of participatory management and its essentially independent software equipment. By bringing together many industry players, the platform LiMo could achieve homogeneity and the necessary critical mass who missed the previous initiatives and delayed the takeoff of Linux Mobile.
Note the presence among the newcomers Mozilla Corporation, which is currently working to develop a Firefox browser Mobile to repeat the experience of mobile Web browsing. Similarly, the participation of several mobile operators should ensure the promotion and distribution of mobile phones LiMo, which should take place from 2009.
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