Just a few months after Google and the Open Handset Alliance announced Android, LiMo Foundation began rolling out its own Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.

Limo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.

The first release of the LiMo Platform will be available in March and the application programming interfaces (APIs) are immediately available to developers.

“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.”

Below are LiMo’s initial founder members:

• Motorola
• NEC
• NTT
• DoCoMo
• Panasonic Mobile Communications
• Samsung Electronics
• Vodafone

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