LiMo Platform

In 2008, at the Mobile World Congress, the LiMo Foundation presented a series of software development kits ( SDKs ) for mobile specifications. These included tools for Linux, Java, and Webkit software applications. Software company Wind River Systems (now part of Intel ) has provided the development of fundamental components for a common LiMo application environment (CIE). At the same time, Azingo , whose Azingo Mobile software suite was also exhibited at Mobile World Congress 2008, provided upscale tools.

Both companies were interested in the wide distribution of LiMo software packages. LiMo participants also worked on improving the SDK:

• Access was involved in the Native SDK ,
• Aplix focused on the Java SDK ,
• Motorola created the SDK for the Webkit HTML engine.

The LiMo platform includes not only open components, but also proprietary developments introduced by the companies included in the association into the common boiler. Most of the project's work is distributed in source code using the GPL , the API is available under the Foundation Public License ( FPL ), a version of the GPL that has been adjusted in terms of using patented technologies.

On September 27, 2011, the LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation officially announced the launch of a new open-source Linux-based software platform for a wide range of devices called Tizen . The work on this project was led by Samsung and Intel, collaborating with the LiMo Foundation consortium. The composition of Tizen included developments from LiMo.

On January 1, 2012, the LiMo Foundation was renamed the Tizen Association.

LiMo Platform R1

At Mobile World Congress 2008, Hankil Yoon, vice president of Samsung's Linux Platform and Devices, as well as a member of the LiMo Software Architecture Council, said the APIs for the first version of the R1 LiMo Platform software platform Ready and available for all mobile developers, and in March 2008, the release of the R1 LiMo Platform platform itself will take place.

LiMo Platform R2

By mid- 2009, the LiMo Foundation alliance issued a statement on the completion of the specification for the new version of the LiMo R2 mobile platform. Among the innovations of LiMo R2, support for the BONDI-based D-Bus API is intended for organizing the interaction of web widgets with the phone hardware and software. For example, using BONDI, the widget can work with the camera, make calls, launch applications. The new version of LiMo has been expanded in terms of multimedia capabilities, personal information management, security tools, support for the creation of services that work taking into account the location ^[1] .

According to LiMo, as of February 2008, 18 mobile devices from various companies are on sale and under development, including Aplix , LG , Motorola , NEC , Panasonic Mobile Communications , Purple Labs and Samsung support the LiMo platform (Linux Mobile).

In mid- 2008, the LiMo Foundation introduced 7 new LiMo-compatible mobile devices from Motorola , NEC and Panasonic . Thus, the number of phones compatible with LiMo specifications increased to 21 ^[2] .

By October 2009, more than 40 LiMo devices had already been released ^[3] .

• Examples of released LiMo devices:
  • NEC N706i ,
  • NEC N906il ,
  • NEC N906iu (micro),
  • NEC N906i ,
  • Panasonic P706iu ,
  • Panasonic P906i ,
  • Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 is a LiMo compatible smartphone released with Kodak ,
  • Samsung M1 - Samsung’s communicator running LiMo Release 2 (R2),
  • Samsung H1 ,
  • Samsung H2 .

• LiMo Foundation
• Access Linux Platform
• Android
• Maemo
• Openmoko
• Palm webOS
• Meeego
• Bada
• Tizen

• Official site LiMo Foundation Platform
• LiMo Foundation Blog
• OpenNET article: “Android vs. LiMo: what's the difference?”