LiMo Foundation is the first working on Linux platform since January 2007. They also have partnership with big companies like Panasonic, Motorola, LG, NTT DoCoMo,  Samsung, being altogether 27 companies.

LiMo’s Morgan Gillis advise Google to sort out conflicts between Telecoms and handset manufactures, and then the alliance will show a good progress.

Google’s arrival into the mobile industry is extremely recent, and I’m sure there will be a number of further iterations of Google’s approach to the industry before they get settled on a format.  But my observation at this stage is that Google can probably make much faster progress by minimizing business model conflict with operators and handset makers.  If they really want to offer just a monolithic software stack, it probably makes it harder for their offering to be adopted by makers and operators.  But if they chose to deploy their user experience technology onto a middleware platform that is widely accepted, they could probably make much more progress.

With their APIs released for developers, anyone are able to build software for it, and the full OS is expected to be released anytime in March. LiMo Foundation will also be at the GSM Mobile Congress (Hall 8 ) sharing big companies attention with Google.

But the thing is, are they strong enough to hold the Android progress? after all behind the OHA you have giants like Google, Motorola, Samsung and many other. And for developers any $10m Challenge? What for sure makes developers choose Android as a platform at least for now. The idea is great, although, it’s not claiming to be the first a good pledge to drive interest. What I believe is the best not only for the foundation but for all users, is it become a huge software Android developer warehouse, after all they have expertise enough to build outstanding software for Linux devices.

[Via Google-Phone]

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