Linux based mobile device platform based on industry developed standards will be, hopefully, a reality by 2008, if the newly formed global initiative comes out with its standard... |
There are only a few standard mobile phone software now available, however Linux based mobile device platform based on industry developed standards will be, hopefully, a reality by 2008, if the newly formed global initiative comes out with its standard.
The LiMo Foundation, established in January this year, will work on developing a common platform for mobile handsets and “enable a much broader and richer measure of innovation” in the mobile device market, said Morgan Gillis, executive director at the LiMo Foundation.
“It’s much more sensible for industry players from all parts of the value chain to collaborate together on a common platform which uses published common APIs,” said Gillis.
He also said that while Linux-based mobile devices have been in existence in some markets like China and Japan, these are solely proprietary technologies and not based on “open industry standard platform.”
From six founding members, which include Motorola, NEC, NTT Docomo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, there are new firms that have joined. Recently Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, Wind River and McAfee have joined as core members of the foundation.
Others, which have recently joined as associate members, include microprocessor maker ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Innopath, South Korean telecom firm KTF, MontaVista Software and chipmaker NXP B.V. |
