LiMo Platform and APIs Open Market Access for Technology Vendors and
Application Developers
LONDON and TOKYO, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- LiMo Foundation(TM), a global
consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the
whole industry, today announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008
of the first release of the LiMo Platform-the first globally competitive,
Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the
immediate public availability of the application programming interface
(API) specifications.
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LiMo's technology will be showcased in Booth 8b135, Hall 8 at Mobile
World Congress (http://www.mobileworldcongress.com), February 11-14 in Barcelona.
"The LiMo Platform is being readied by mobile leaders working in unison
to deliver an open handset platform for use by the whole industry," said
Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. "The first
release of the LiMo Platform combines technologies already extensively
market proven within an array of leading handsets. 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."
LiMo's initial Founder members -- Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic
Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone -- collaborated on
Release 1 (R1), and nearly all of the enabling technology within R1 has
been commercially deployed and proven within handsets enjoyed by consumers
today.
"We are very proud of the transparent, balanced and harmonious
contribution process that led to the on-schedule rollout of R1 of the LiMo
platform and our API specifications. This unique process -- with its shared
leadership and decision-making -- has delivered the benefits of both
community-based and proprietary development," said Kiyohito Nagata of NTT
DoCoMo, chairperson of LiMo Foundation. "The evolution of the platform is
an ongoing process. We are delighted with the wide range companies
contributing to that process as we now work on Release 2."
The LiMo Platform-leveraging standards and open-source projects -- is a
modular, plug-in-based, hardware-independent architecture built around an
open operating system, with a secure run-time environment for support of
downloaded applications. 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-platformize" with
other product categories.
"With LiMo announcing the first release of the platform that is common
across many handset vendors and models, the stage is set for mobile
innovation on Linux," said Guido Arnone, Director of Terminals Technology,
Vodafone, and vice chairperson of LiMo Foundation. "The LiMo Platform
enables operators and handset makers to assign greater investment to
technologies that improve the consumer experience and technology vendors
and ISVs to target their products for a software platform that is being
broadly adopted by the whole industry."
Third-party developers will use LiMo's API specifications -- available
in beta form immediately at http://www.limofoundation.org -- to build new
applications that deliver next-generation consumer experiences across a
tremendous, stable base of globally deployed mobile devices. Middleware
components for the LiMo Platform can be implemented in either C or C++
programming languages.
Launched in January 2007, the LiMo Foundation is open to all vendors
and service providers in the mobile communications marketplace, including
device manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, independent
software vendors, integrators and third-party developers.
About LiMo Foundation(TM)
LiMo Foundation is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders
working together within an open and transparent governance model -- with
shared leadership and shared decision making -- to deliver an open and
globally consistent handset software platform based upon Mobile Linux for
use by the whole mobile industry. A full description of the foundation,
including the vision, goals, charter and membership information, can be
found at http://www.limofoundation.org.
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Related links:
http://www.limofoundation.org
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com
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