Limo debuts first mobile Linux platform amid steep competition
The LiMo Foundation is set to announce at CTIA its first Linux reference platform for cell phone carriers and handset manufacturers. As announced in January, and promised for delivery in March, the foundation will offer up at CTIA its first stab at a standard mobile Linux platform: LiMo Platform Release 1. It won’t be easy. The platform is far behind entrenched operating systems including Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone and will face off against Google’s “Android” open source operating system being developed by the Open Handset Alliance. Still, its a step in the right direction and will likely please this class of OEMs — which traditionally have sought out more customizable Linux operating systems but suffered under the…
