New players team up with LiMo Foundation
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 14th 2008 10:05AM
posted May 14th 2008 10:05AM
Following a new round of partnership announcements back in February, LiMo Foundation today added 8 new members, bringing the grand total to 40 -- and perhaps most notably, Verizon Wireless becomes the first American carrier to team up with the group and the Foundation's final board member (in other words, they seem to be taking this initiative pretty seriously). Other new players include South Korea's SK Telecom, France's SFR, Sagem, chipmaker Infineon, and Mozilla, suggesting that there'll be plenty of mobile Firefox support for LiMo's nascent platform. LiMo represents the largest Linux-based threat to Android's plans for world domination, having announced its initiative some time before Google while collecting a veritable who's-who of world players from NTT DoCoMo to manufacturers like LG and Motorola -- and with the depth of Verizon's commitment to this, evident by its nabbing of an actual board seat, we wouldn't be surprised to see LiMo-based products actually go beyond its Any Apps, Any Device initiative and get real on the carrier's official lineup.
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Second post. I hate you TEH AWESOMER
I hate you teh awesomer I hate you!!!!!!!!!!!! He uses a mac and he is a noob.
Why is LiMo a threat to Android? They're both Linux based, and everything Google wants could probably be thrown in as an add-on package to LiMo. Think of it like "LiMo with Android extensions".
I would expect Google to happy about both LiMo and Maemo ... they're much easier for Google to leverage than a dozen proprietary phone platforms, plus blackberry, plus WinMo, plus the iPhone SDK (which may not allow all of Android's capabilities). Google should be enthused about the idea of a phone ecosystem that might have a ton of LiMo, Maemo, and Android devices. In essence, they can all be Android devices once they supply the correct "add-on" package, which should be just a re-packaging of the same pieces from an Android build.
Guess they got mad at people bagging on there UI and thought they need a new one to corrupt
The only reason Verizon wants in on this is so they can have a say in how they lock down and cripple the phones.
Screw Verizon. I hope they burn in hell with their lame UI and crippled phones. Oh and lets not forget their math, where unlimited means 5gb.
So much for compatible (GSM Nets) Customer Access Devices (CAD's)and shared costs between AT&T and Verizon Wireless new LTE networks.
1st AT&T announces that it will deploy their LTE network using both 700Mhz and AWS SPectrums and now they have committed to Googles ANdroid. Verizon Wireless is 100% 700Mhz and will work using LIMO products