LiMo was officially formed by Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, NTT DoCoMo, and Vodafone in January and aims to create a common source code tree for mobile Linux that will reduce time to market as well as development and testing costs.
At the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco this week a dozen new members were announced. LG Electronics, Wind River, McAfee, Aplix, and Celunite have joined as core members and will participate on the foundation’s board, while Ericsson, MontaVista, ARM, Broadcom, Innopath, KTF and NXP have joined as associate members.
LiMO also announced that it expects the first handset supporting the LiMo platform to go on sale in the first half of next year.
