The LiMo Foundation is one of the only direct Linux competitors to Android that Google will have to worry about. While their Open Handset Alliance has got many big players in their own camp, LiMo has quite a few as well. Today, they add eight more to the list, and some large names are showing up now. Today, Mozilla, Verizon, ... continued »

As promised, the LiMo Foundation have delivered the Release 1 of the eponymous Linux-based mobile device OS, which they're describing as the world's first globally competitive platform of its kind.  A modular, plug-in and hardware-independent architecture with a core open-source OS, Release 1 is notable for having been distributed already on a number of commercially available handsets from well-known manufacturers ... continued »

Hang on, have Panasonic given their new P905i cellphone a dubious champagne casing?  Nineties colour choices aside, the P905i is another of those damned intended-for-Asia handsets that most of us are forced to admire from afar: glorious VIERA 3.2-inch 480 x 854 screen with a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, HSDPA, GPS, 5.1-megapixel camera and 1-Seg mobile TV, it's enough to make ... continued »

The LiMo Foundation looks set to capitalise on its recent open-source Linux mobile OS launch with a partnership with Azingo - whose mobile platform consists of the LiMo middleware framework and kernel and a suite of pre-built mobile applications - and Samsung's cellular chip arm.  Providing both the Azingo platform and a Samsung S3C2442 application processor, the combination is intended ... continued »