Panasonic and NEC to unveil nine Linux devices on Monday as the LiMo Foundation takes off
On Monday, April 20, Panasonic and NEC are expected to unveil nine devices that run on the Linux-powered LiMo operating system. While not much is known about the soon-to-be-announced devices at this time, proponents of open source operating systems will apparently have plenty of cause for celebration in 2009. Current members of the LiMo Foundation include Motorola, NEC, Panasonic, LG and Samsung, though the latter two have yet to unveil a single LiMo device to date. Still, the foundation does have an all-star line-up of carriers backing it up as NTT DoCoMo, Orange, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone have all announced they will be carrying LiMo devices at some point this year. While there might not be too much to account for at the moment, the LiMo picture is apparently about to get a whole lot clearer.
Verizon?! Verizon “we lock down damned near everything on the devices we can get away with” Wireless is backing LiMo?! Wow…
Not sure there’ll be anything compelling enough to make me drop my current phone, but seeing more Linux devices out there will be sweet.
LiMo should somehow merge with the Open Handset Alliance (aka Android). If they want to deliver a subset/derivative of Android, that should be no problem. It is open source.
In the end, consumers want local & web apps. Android has those and the architecture supports x86 & ARM.
Check out what Lenovo has done with Android. It’s a bit iPhone-ish, but nonetheless, it demonstrates the flexibility of Android: http://androidguys.com/?p=4502
u guys forgot to add … moto may be a member, and has released phones in the past, but they will no longer do so. they r 100% android now …
Hey BGR,
isn’t it a bit sad how no one has really commented on this? Just saying, I for one figured people would be just a little more excited about this.