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I recently came across on one article about LiMo Foundation which is established by Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung , NEC, NTT DoCoMo, and Vodafone to develop Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform.

From its whitepaper, It seems that the goal of Foundation Platform is to develop a Linux-based Mobile Application framework similar to Sun MIDP/CLDP for its Java2ME platform.

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The Foundation Platform also define a standard way to represent GUI on mobile phone using GTK+ library. This is to encourage application interoperability between devices and to enhance mobile application user experience.

Hopefully in the future , we can develop a portable Linux application that can be compiled and run on any Linux mobile devices with little or no changes. This would encourage the FOSS to spread across mobile devices too.

[tags]mobile, mobile phone, motorola, foundation platform, linux, linux based, gtk+, j2me[/tags]


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3 smashing comments for this post.

  1. Abiro - Mobile News: LiMo Foundation and UI Said:

    [...] there should still be application compatibility. Posted by Anders Borg 11:58 | Permalink    Comments: Post a Comment Links to this post: See links to this post   posted by @ if (typeof BL_addOnLoadEvent == ‘function’) { BL_addOnLoadEvent(function() { BL_writeBacklinks(); }); } [...]

  2. nay min thu Said:

    J2ME is well-established for mobile applications.. but it will be interesting to see another open source platform coming out..

    =)

  3. Papit's Princess Said:

    i agree with nay min thu

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