LiMo ready to take wraps off first mobile Linux release

While Google has been busy talking up Android, there’s been another mobile Linux effort going along in the background: this one courtesy of the LiMo Foundation, an operator consortium with the likes of Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo and a number of others. Now the group has announced its open source platform and the APIs that go with it will be available from next month.

According to the LiMo Foundation, the first release of the platform has seen all of the founder members working together on the software, which contains technology has been commercially deployed and proven within handsets enjoyed by consumers today”. Release two is now underway.

It will be interesting to see if LiMo’s work and Purple Labs’ work will mean Linux for mobiles taking off in a bigger way outside Asia and hopefully closer to home.