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Android Competitor Adds Members to Deliver a Mobile Linux Platform
Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola
Jan. 12, 2008 01:30 PM
Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform.
Said platform would perforce have to compete against the Linux-based Google-organized Android platform.
There are whispers that the first Android phones could start appearing next month at the Mobile World Congress, the same venue where LiMo is supposed to make its platform announcement along with a few phones perhaps.
The Android spec won't achieve 1.0 status before the second half of the year.
About Salvatore GenoveseSalvatore Genovese is a Cloud Computing consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Rome, Italy. He occasionally blogs about SOA, start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. Sal can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com.