LiMo shows off 18 new phones, load of new friends

It’s been a bit of a red letter day for the LiMo Foundation, chief cheerleader for mobile Linux, with the foundation using Mobile World Congress to announce the first handset based on its open source platform as well as new members signing up to the group.

The handsets exiting the LiMo stable feature six from Motorola, including a couple of Razrs, as well as one from Samsung and a shedload of FOMA devices from NTT DoCoMo. The foundation also announced a couple of prototypes in the works, from LG and Aplix. All in all, there are 18 devices from 7 manufacturers to look forward to.

Meanwhile, nine new members signed up: ACCESS, LTD, AMD, FueTrek, Open-Plug, Orange, Renesas Technology Corp., Samsung SDS, SoftBank and STMicroelectronics.

It’s good to see LiMo’s work showing some results and I’m looking forward to getting my hands on some of those handsets. It’s also good to see some unity in the Linux movement, with Orange – which supports another Linux group, LiPS, – joining up with LiMo too.