Razr, others designated LiMo Linux phones
The LiMo Foundation
plans to announce 18 phones based on its platform, including some that are already
on the market, on Monday at the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona.
The phones come from LG Electronics,
Motorola, NEC,
Panasonic, Samsung
and others. Included among the LiMo phones already used by consumers are Motorola's
Razr2 and Motorokr as well as a number of NTT
DoCoMo handsets.
"The LiMo platform in Release One uses technology that the founder companies
had created from two to three years ago," said Morgan Gillis, executive
director of the LiMo Foundation. That means that some existing phones can now
be designated as LiMo handsets, even though Release One isn't officially available.
LiMo plans to release the first version of its open-source Linux-based operating
system platform for mobile phones in March.
Some of the handset makers, including LG, Aplix and Purple Labs, plan to exhibit
prototype and reference handsets based on LiMo at the conference. The Purple
Labs reference design is a 3G (third-generation) phone designed to cost less
than US$100, Gillis said.
LiMo also plans to announce on Monday that it will make a software development
kit available in the second half of this year. The SDK will provide Eclipse-based
tools so that developers can build software for LiMo handsets. Access, Motorola,
Wind River and other LiMo members are developing the SDK.
"We're hoping to empower mobile developers on a broad scale to work with
us and to bring their applications and services to consumers in a direct way,"
said Gillis.
Despite the interest in Linux mobile phones and the variety of groups working
on it including LiMo, the LiPS
(Linux Phone Standards) Forum and Google's Open
Handset Alliance, market momentum has stalled. A recent report from Canalys
revealed that total Linux phone shipments in 2007 were essentially flat compared
to 2006.
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