LiMo - introduction to the Platform & the Foundation

What is the LiMo Foundation?

LiMo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Backing from major industry leaders puts LiMo at the Heart of the Mobile Industry and makes LiMo the unifying force in Mobile Linux.

The mission of the LiMo Foundation is to create an open, Linux-based software platform for use by the whole global industry to produce mobile devices through a balanced and transparent contribution process enabling a rich ecosystem of differentiated products, applications, and services from device manufacturers, operators, ISVs and integrators.

What is the LiMo Platform?

The LiMo Foundation Platform is being developed to enable the design, development and deployment of mobile phone devices based on a modular, plug-in architecture built around an open operating system with a secure run-time environment for the support of downloaded applications.

Where possible, the LiMo Foundation Platform architecture leverages existing standards and open source projects to accelerate the development and acceptance of the Platform. Through a transparent and balanced contribution process, the LiMo Foundation is leveraging the benefits of community-based and proprietary development to create the Platform – a best of both worlds approach.

The LiMo Foundation has selected Linux as the core technology for the LiMo Foundation Platform due to its rich functionality, scalability and excellent record of success within mobile embedded systems, the scope to easily cross-platformize with other categories such as consumer electronics and automotive, and the potential to engage the large community of Linux developers into the mobile arena.

Applications can access middleware components through a well-defined API and interface model. For design flexibility, middleware components may be implemented in either C or C++. Two architectural components, the Application Manager Framework and the Application UI Framework, provide both C and C++ interfaces.

The LiMo Foundation Platform is designed to be hardware independent so that LiMo Foundation member companies that create a LiMo-powered handset have the flexibility to choose any hardware chipset solution to meet their needs.

Links and further information:

Official website - The Official LiMo Foundation Website

More details - Click here for more information on the LiMo Platform

Technical breakdown - Click here for the technical breakdown of LiMo

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